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yogurt
English yogurt, recorded by 1625, is a borrowing of Turkish yoğurt. Scholarship relates the noun to the Turkish verb yoğurmak, but the age of the food itself is a separate historical question.
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Present-Day Englishyogurt
a fermented semisolid milk food
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Turkish · Turkishyoğurtfermented, thickened milk product
- SOUND CHANGE
- Turkish yoğurt was adapted to English spelling and pronunciation as yogurt or yoghurt.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The fermented milk referent remained central.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · Türk Dil Kurumu
- CONFIDENCE
- established — Merriam-Webster explicitly identifies Turkish yoğurt; TDK documents the modern Turkish word.
- CHRONOLOGY
- English record by 1625.
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