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ALL SOURCES ↗BIBLIOGRAPHIC IDENTITYmw-mango
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historical dictionarymw-mango
Mango — Word History
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 179GRADE A-supports
A supermarket word carries an Indian Ocean contact history.
English mango came through Portuguese manga, probably from Malayalam māṅṅa.
മാങ്ങ
മാങ്ങ → manga → mango
Word History — Portuguese manga, probably Malayalam māṅṅaDocuments the complete promoted route and confidence.
mango dossier ↗truth record ↗83UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
opensupportsprobable
Is Malayalam the certain ultimate source of mango?
Portuguese manga is the secure immediate source; Malayalam māṅṅa is probable, not absolute, and no deeper Dravidian reconstruction is promoted in this review.
Word History — “probably from Malayalam māṅṅa”The probability wording prevents false certainty.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 326supportsestablished
mango → manga
Present-Day English → Portuguese · borrowing
- SOUND
- Portuguese manga was adapted with the English ending and vowel represented by mango.
- MEANING
- The fruit and tree referent remained central.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
Word History — Etymology; First Known UseIdentifies Portuguese manga and reports English use in 1582.
EDGE 327supportsprobable
manga → മാങ്ങ
Portuguese → Malayalam · proposed borrowing
- SOUND
- Portuguese manga closely reflects Malayalam māṅṅa; the nasal and final vowel were accommodated in Portuguese spelling.
- MEANING
- The mango-fruit referent remained stable.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · Hermann Gundert
Word History — Portuguese manga, probably from Malayalam māṅṅaExplicitly gives the probable Malayalam source.
EDGE 328contextboundary
മാങ്ങ → UNKNOWN
Malayalam → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary
- SOUND
- No deeper Dravidian reconstruction is promoted from the reviewed sources.
- MEANING
- The reviewed route reaches Malayalam and stops.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- SET-U editorial boundary
Word History — endpoint at Malayalam māṅṅaDefines the reviewed horizon at which this path stops.
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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
mangoSOURCE-REPORTED
mango
English lexicographic first-use record for mango
OPEN WITNESS 74 ↗051
COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
manga
Portugueseimmediate donor form, probably from Malayalam māṅṅa
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
stage 1supports
Malayalam-speaking southwestern India
Identifies the probable Malayalam source.
Word History — Malayalam māṅṅa · regionalstage 2supports
Portuguese Indian Ocean network
Identifies the Portuguese intermediary.
Word History — Portuguese manga · broadstage 3supports
Global English
Reports 1582.
First Known Use · global070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
No non-genealogical context link currently cites this source.
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WORD-FAMILY REUSE
DOSSIERS THAT DEPEND ON THIS SOURCE
3 entry-scoped citations map reviewed dossier paths onto the canonical claims above.