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Where does “igname” come from?

igname (French) comes from Portuguese inhame, from Fula nyami — to eat.

igname (French): yam

Definitions

  1. yam

Ancestry of “igname”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueseinhameyam
2Fulanyamito eat
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