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chichab
Kuna · pre-1500s
"maize"
meant 'maize', the base ingredient of a fermented beverage made by peoples of Panama and Colombia
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chicha
Spanish · 1500s
"a fermented maize or fruit beverage"
adopted broadly by Spanish colonists as a generic term for indigenous fermented beverages
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chicha
English · 1600s-1900s
"a traditional fermented maize or fruit drink"
borrowed into English through travel and anthropological writing on Latin America
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