taco.
a taco; a Mexican dish consisting of a small tortilla, served soft or fried and folded around or topped with ingredients such as meat, fish, beans, vegetables, cheese and salsa
Meaning & usage
a taco; a Mexican dish consisting of a small tortilla, served soft or fried and folded around or topped with ingredients such as meat, fish, beans, vegetables, cheese and salsa
Vi spiser taco hver fredag.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish taco (“taco”). The origin of the Spanish food name is uncertain. It may be a transferred use of taco (“plug, wad”), perhaps because rolled tacos were compared with the paper-wrapped explosive charges known as tacos in Mexican mines. If the food name belongs to this word family, it may ultimately be related through Italian tacco (“heel; chock”) to Proto-West Germanic *takkō (“twig, branch, shoot”), and thus distantly related to English English tack, Dutch Dutch tak (“branch”) and German German Zacke (“prong, spike”). Another proposed source is Nahuatl tlahco (“half; middle, centre”), perhaps referring to filling placed in the middle of a tortilla; this derivation is likewise uncertain. The Norwegian borrowing is first attested in 1936. Compare the parallel borrowings Norwegian Nynorsk taco, Danish taco, Swedish taco, Dutch taco, Finnish taco, German Taco, French taco, Polish taco, Russian та́ко (táko) and Japanese タコス (“taco”).
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