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Squash

2 stages from Narragansett to English.

Today it means an edible gourd-family vegetable, eaten as summer or winter squash
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Stage 1 of 2
askutasquash
Narragansett · pre-1600s
"a vegetable eaten raw"
literally "eaten raw or uncooked", describing the vegetable
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Stage 2 of 2
squash
English · 1600s
"a gourd-family vegetable"
shortened by English colonists in New England
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