Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Spanish ·1730s
Cigar
from cigarro
- Meaning
- A rolled bundle of dried tobacco leaves for smoking.
- Source word
- cigarro
- Route into English
- Mayan *sik'ar* (to smoke) → Spanish *cigarro* → English via Cuban trade. The Mayan root is the ultimate source; Spanish preserved it almost unchanged.
- Arrived
- 1730s
From Spanish
American Spanish, not peninsular Spanish, provided most of the modern loanwords — through US expansion westward and Latin American trade.
English borrows.
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