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Long ago, a fragrant root from Southeast Asia journeyed to England via Eurasia: Known as "iñcivēr"(meaning “ginger + root”) in South India, it spread to the North as "siṃgivera" in Prakrit, and finally arrived to the West, ζιγγίβερῐς (zingíberis) in Greek & later in Latin gingiber.
It was such a long trip