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Congee

2 stages from Tamil to English.

Today it means a soft rice porridge, eaten widely across East and South Asia
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Stage 1 of 2
kanji
Tamil · medieval
"rice porridge"
boiled rice porridge, a term carried through trade across Asia
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Stage 2 of 2
congee
English · 1600s
"a soft rice porridge"
adopted through trade contact for the soft rice porridge eaten across Asia
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