Etymograph

English

ananas

Ananas comes from Italian ananas ‘pineapple’, and goes back to Old Tupi naná.

  1. Old Tupimodernnaná‘pineapple’
  2. Portuguesec. 1500–presentananás
  3. Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentananas‘pineapple’
  5. Italianc. 1300–presentsame form‘pineapple’
  6. Englishearliest quotation a. 1749same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Tupimodernnaná‘pineapple’
  2. Portuguesec. 1500–presentananás
  3. Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentananas‘pineapple’
  5. Italianc. 1300–presentsame form‘pineapple’
  6. Englishearliest quotation a. 1749same form

Earliest quotation: a. 1749, James Thomson, Summer: “Witness, thou best Anana, thou the Pride / Of…”

Every English word from Old Tupi naná

Today it means

noun Pineapple.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old Tupi naná / ananas

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