[CH] Chipotle

Cameron Begg (begg.4@osu.edu)
Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:47:11 -0500 

Hi C-H's

I got it a bit confused:

chipotle = American Spanish, from Nahuatl xipotli.

xi=chile pepper (where the English word came from) and potli=smoke

http://www.bartleby.com/61/65/C0306550.html

So where did "aji" come from? Another S. Amer. language I suppose.
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