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Re: [Aroid-l] Plants with funny names (was Re:
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From: "John Criswick" <criswick at spiceisle.com>
on 2016.07.12 at 00:01:20
Yes I certainly remember bringing this name seguine up before. Not that anything conclusive resulted. You have made a good point with Maple.=C2=A0 However, in Grenada today, or at least in the 70s (everything is changing), the name =E2=80=9Csiggin=E2=80=9D referred also to Monstera obliqua, which is/was fed to pigs.=C2=A0 Therefore one is tempted to conclude that =E2=80=9Csiggin=E2=80=9D means =E2=80=9Caroid=E2=80=9D although the name s never applied to Colocasia or Xanthosoma, two edible cultivated aroids. John. From: aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Jason Hernandez Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2016 2:02 AM To: aroid-l@www.gizmoworks.com Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Plants with funny names (was Re: Dieffenbachia seguine) " I may not have fully understood if it was being suggested they might be the same thing/plant/drink." No. I was giving them as two different examples of plants whose Native American names were adopted by white settlers who had no name of their own for the plant. Now, re: seguin. The Arawak language of the Caribbean is lost, except for a partial word list compiled from Spanish colonial records. If it should be that seguin was borrowed from that language, it may not be possible to find out what it meant -- if, indeed, it ever meant anything other than that particular kind of plant. I have to add that last caveat because, well, asking what a plant common name means is rather like asking what the word "maple" means. It may be an understandable question for someone from a country where maples do not grow, but the only answer is that "maple" means that particular kind of tree. It has no other meaning. Okay, I was pretty sure this subject had been discussed before, but now that I search the Aroid-L archives, I can't find it.
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