Easily amused

[redbird]

One of the ongoing alt.polyamory food threads wandered from rutabagas (a.k.a. swedes) to someone wondering, given that we call turkeys (Melleagris gallopavo) after Turkey, and the French and Russians call them after India, what the Turks and Indians call them.

Google is my friend. The Turkish for M. gallopavo is "hindi." No luck on finding the Hindi--of the first four English-Hindi dictionaries I found, one didn't have it, one gave me an error message, and two happily displayed answers in a character set I don't know. I did, however, learn that "turko" is a Hindi word for crescent.

Comments

[pariyal.livejournal.com]

Strangely, the Turkish for coconut is 'hindistan'.

Talking turkey

[bschilli.livejournal.com]

In Tamil (South Indian language) a turkey is a wan-cori (as best as I can come up with phonetically) which means "chicken that flies".

Ben