Day 5 of #30DayMapChallenge: Journey
The fruit #apricot 🍑 took an incredible journey around the Mediterranean: starting from #Latin, it traveled to #Greek, then made its way into #Arabic, was later adopted by #Catalan, and finally borrowed into #English. What a traveller!

https://mapologies.com/fruits/

#etymology #language #etymologymap #fruit #europe #map #persian #albercoc #aprikose #abricot #albicocca

Fruits • M A P O L O G I E S

As humans spread all over the world, so fruit trees did. The etymologies of their names give us information about their origin and travels

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