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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to our new segment It Means What?
Yeah.
Okay, that starts to become annoying. 欢迎回来我们的新板块【词源考古研究所】Hi 安澜.
Hi, Lulu, hi, everyone.
In this segment, we're bringing you interesting origin stories of very common words and phrases. So I would like to propose a word for today.
Go ahead.
This is definitely not an English word I think. But this is a star food in this whole super food trend.
Okay？
这种超级食物或者说这种健康饮食里面, 最近这些年的一个网红食物, 不光是在中国还是在西方. This is avocado.
中文现在是叫牛油果.
Yeah, I always find it really interesting kind of the Chinese where that comes from.
I think it might just be the texture. It tastes a bit buttery because it has really nice fats, right?
It's certainly better than the origin of the English word.
But it's not English, is it?
It's not English, no.
Avocado, based on my limited knowledge. It comes from Latin America.
So avocado comes from Spanish and the Spanish word comes from the language of the Aztecs.
Aztec就是阿兹特克, 中美洲的, where Mexico is right now. If you're interested in history, you definitely have heard of the Aztecs.
Yes.
The Aztec spoke a language called Nahuatl.
Nahuatl.
And avocado comes from the word āhuacatl, which means testicle.
What? for those of you who don't really understand the word ‘testicles’, well, how shall I explain this?
They are the most precious part of a men, a pair of them, if you don't understand, then check it out. I can't... for this show to be out, I cannot say it.
Yes, but don't do an image search.
But why would they call it testicles? It's a fruit, right? It's food.
Yeah. But what do they look like？
Forget my question. It's funny to think that avocados are now so popular and they're expensive. They're popular in the UK as well.
Very, very very popular.
