Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only thing that URL didn't address was my unoriginal
thesis that the
> name came about as a result of the Portuguese importation
from New
> Guinea, a territory of Turkey.
> For refutation of any of those contentions, you'll have to
take it up
> with the authors of "The Oxford Dictionary of English
Etymology," The
> Oxford Universisty Press, London, the source I used.
Keith,
I don't know what the Oxford Dictionary says about the New
Guinea (South West Pacific), but neither that nor the Guinea
(Western Africa) were a territory of Turkey or of the Ottoman
Empire.
It is true though that the guinea fowl was also known as turkey,
being brought to Europe via Turkey (and the American turkey was
named this way after the guinea fowl for its resemblance to the
latter).
Ciao,
Gianfranco
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