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Succotash

2 stages from Narragansett to English.

Today it means a dish made primarily of corn kernels and lima beans
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Stage 1 of 2
msickquatash
Narragansett · pre-1600s
"boiled corn kernels"
meaning "boiled corn kernels"
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Stage 2 of 2
succotash
English · 1600s-1700s
"a dish of corn and lima beans"
adopted by English colonists in New England
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