From “poule d’inde”, litterally “hen from India”, which got shortend as such sthings tend to be. And it replaced the delicious Christmas goose for a while because it was “exotic”.
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Guttural@jlai.lu 1 week agoThe French word is “dinde”, and the ethmology IIRC is “from India”.
Now, in French, “pute” is a derogatory term for a prostitute.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 week ago
In turkey the bird is named Hindi, after India. In the Netherlands is called after Calicut. In Portugal, it’s called after Peru, however in Arabic it’s an Ethiopian rooster. In Malaysia is called a Dutch bird.
The explanation is that people through America was India, hence calling it after India a lot (Peru being what Portugese thought was America).
However the people who first encountered the bird they thought it loaded like a particular woodfoul that was imported from Turkey, calling it a turkey bird.
India and other Asian countries only know it from European trade, calling it either Turkey, Dutch chicken or something else like fire bird (china).