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Chili

3 stages from Nahuatl to English.

Today it means a hot-tasting pepper, or a spicy dish made with peppers and meat or beans
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Stage 1 of 3
chilli
Nahuatl · pre-1500s
"chili pepper"
the Nahuatl name for the hot pepper
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Stage 2 of 3
chile
Spanish · 1500s
"chili pepper"
adopted from Nahuatl via Spanish colonial contact
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Stage 3 of 3
chili
English · 1600s
"the hot pepper, or a dish made with it"
borrowed from Spanish
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