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chained_bear commented on the word yavanesta
"By the time of Christ, when da Gama's native Portugal was still a bleak and barren wilderness of Lusitanian tribesmen peering out on the sailless waters of the Atlantic, Greek mariners were arriving in Malabar in such numbers that one recherché Sanskrit name for pepper was yavanesta, "the passion of the Greeks.""
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 17.
November 28, 2016