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Stage 1 of 3
milpan
Nahuatl · pre-1500s
"a cultivated field"
combined 'milli' (cultivated field) and 'pan' (on, at), naming a traditional farming plot
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Stage 2 of 3
milpa
Spanish · 1600s
"a small farming plot, often growing maize, beans, and squash together"
adopted into Mexican Spanish for the traditional maize, bean, and squash farming plot
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Stage 3 of 3
milpa
English · 1840s
"a traditional Mesoamerican farming plot using intercropped staple crops"
borrowed into English through anthropological and agricultural writing on Mesoamerica
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