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Lockdown etymologies: chowder

The American English word chowder refers to a thick fish soup made in New England. It is said (here) to go back to late Latin caldaria ‘cooking pot’. More specifically: Fr. chaudrée, a thick fish soup of the Charentes region (recipe here).


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Laurent Sagart (May 4, 2020). Lockdown etymologies: chowder. Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian. Retrieved April 28, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/ukcy


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