[CH] Aji

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Cameron Begg asked: "So where did "aji" come from? Another S. Amer.
language I
suppose."

You have to think so, since my Peruvian co-worker and one person from
Ecuador knew hot capsicums as "aji (accent on the last syllable, but this
is an ASCII list - use imagination).

However, deep recesses in my mind indicate the natives Columbus encountered
called them "axi."  This became hispanicized to "aji."  I just looked it up
in Jean Andrews  _Peppers_the_Domesticated_Capsicums_ and this says it
would be Arawak in origin.

George Nelson

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