yam的词源

英文词源

yam (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1580s, igname (current form by 1690s), from Portuguese inhame or Spanish igname, from a West African language (compare Fulani nyami "to eat;" Twi anyinam "species of yam"); the word in American and Jamaican English probably is directly from West African sources. The Malay name is ubi, whence German öbiswurzel.

中文词源

yam:山药

来自非洲土著语。

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