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START / NODE 366Present-Day English1888–today
kimchi
The English food word is a direct borrowing of Korean 김치, with the familiar kimchee spelling as an English variant.
“Kimchi is not an English label pasted onto a Korean dish. The word traveled with the food from Korean 김치—and the reviewed trail stops there rather than inventing a deeper ancestor.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englishkimchi
Korean fermented vegetable preparation
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Korean · historical and modern Korean김치vegetables salted, seasoned, and fermented
- SOUND CHANGE
- English kimchi adapts Korean 김치 through the established romanized spelling; kimchee is a secondary English variant.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The name of the fermented preparation travels with the food category.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster editors · National Institute of Korean Language
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- CHRONOLOGY
- English first-known-use report: 1888.
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