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Matoke

2 stages from Bantu to English.

Today it means a starchy East African dish made from steamed and mashed green bananas
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Stage 1 of 2
matoke
Bantu · medieval
"cooking bananas"
a variety of starchy cooking banana, and the dish made from it
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Stage 2 of 2
matoke
English · 1900s
"a steamed East African banana dish"
adopted directly for the East African steamed banana dish
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