Etymograph

English

jaggery

Jaggery comes from Indo-Portuguese jágara.

  1. Indo-Portuguesemodernjágara
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1681jaggery

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Indo-Portuguesemodernjágara
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1681jaggery

Earliest quotation: 1681, Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon: “The next Tree is the Kettule. […] It yieldeth…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ ‘boulder’

sugar, 11 more

through Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH

saccharin, 11 more

Today it means

noun A traditional dark-brown unrefined sugar made from palm tree sap which is used throughout South and Southeast Asia; (by extension) other types of unrefined sugar.

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

Etymograph / Indo-Portuguese jágara / jaggery

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