PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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The source word āhuacatl is documented with both avocado and testicle senses. The reviewed dictionary entries do not establish which sense came first or that one was a deliberate anatomical naming of the other.
/ˌævəˈkɑːdoʊ/ · noun
An English reshaping of Spanish aguacate from Nahuatl āhuacatl, a word documented with both avocado and testicle senses.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Independently documents the same polysemy.
Definition — ahuacatl fruit and testicleDocuments both senses and the Spanish route without a derivational-direction claim.
Word History — Nahuatl āhuacatl avocado, testicleSET-U states the two-source lexical fact and labels the stronger naming story as an unsupported inference.