From Latin fermentum .
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WORD DOSSIERS
nounhistorical form
kimchi
The English food word is a direct borrowing of Korean 김치, with the familiar kimchee spelling as an English variant.
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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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HISTORICAL FORMS
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
kimchi
Korean fermented vegetable preparation
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- 1888–today
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
yogurt
a fermented semisolid milk food
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- 1625–today
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Turkish / Turkic
yoğurt
fermented, thickened milk product
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- Turkish
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- 1
Korean / Koreanic
김치
gimchivegetables salted, seasoned, and fermented
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- historical and modern Korean
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- 1
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 1
resolvedestablishedposition text
Does a Turkish word prove Turkish invention of yogurt?
No. English borrowed Turkish yoğurt, and a Turkish verbal derivation is supported; neither fact alone establishes the prehistoric inventor or birthplace of fermented milk.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
RANK 12GRADE Aranked reveal
A Turkish word is not proof of who invented the food.
English yogurt is Turkish yoğurt, probably related to yoğur- “knead”; the origin of fermented milk is a different historical question.
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The borrowed name is part of the object’s history.
English kimchi directly continues Korean 김치; the graph refuses a deeper arrow until specialist evidence supports one.
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