Etymology

chaudin

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Today it means: A sausage-like meat dish in the cuisine of Louisiana, made from pork, rice, vegetables and spices sewn up and cooked in a pig's stomach. Full definition →

Cajun French chaudin ← Poitevin-Saintongeais chàudin ← Old French chaudun
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The story

  1. Medieval Latin · derived fromcaldūmen
  2. Old French · derived fromchaudun
  3. Poitevin-Saintongeais · derived fromchàudin
  4. Cajun French · borrowed fromchaudin“stuffed and baked pig's stomach; pig's large intestine”
  5. English todaychaudin

From Cajun French chaudin (“stuffed and baked pig's stomach; pig's large intestine”), from Poitevin-Saintongeais chàudin, from Old French chaudun, from Medieval Latin caldūmen. Doublet of chawdron.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchchaudun all →

chawdron

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.