barbecue

The story

1. Taíno · derived frombarbakoa“framework of sticks”
2. Spanish · borrowed frombarbacoa
3. English todaybarbecue

From mid-17th century. Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”. Doublet of balbacua and barbacoa.

Words from the same roots