chocolate
Who named this drink before it became a sweet bar?
What do you notice?
English, via Spanish
chocolate
A Mesoamerican seed and drink
kakaw
Cacao is the clearer trail. Chocolate still has a blank.
Chocolate is not originally a candy-bar word. It names a prepared cacao drink.
Spanish took a Mesoamerican word into Europe. English borrowed the Spanish form.
If you drink hot chocolate, you are closer to the older use than a wrapped bar is. Ask where cacao grows. The word did not start in a factory.
You can stop here. The word already moved.
Go find a traveling word
The screen was the door.
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