Indian corn

English thumb|en colorful variety of maize Etymology From en Indian corn. Since the early 17th century. Before the Columbian Exchange, the English word en corn#Etymology meant any of various cereal grains, with usage much like the word en grain is often used today. When maize, a New World crop, was introduced to English-speakers, they called it Indian corn as a natural term for "the kind of corn (grain) that comes from the Indies." The notion of the geography was very fuzzy at the time for most Europeans; most English speakers at the time did not have a clear notion that the East Indies and the West Indies were not the same thing or adjacent portions of one thing, so the word en Indies encompassed vast overseas scope. Eventually English-speakers in North America came to use the word en corn to mean maize when not otherwise specified, and they came to use the term Indian corn to mean a certain fancy type of maize. Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Indian corn.wav US Noun - en any maize en now _ uncommon Maize. en 1623 William Bradford (governor) William Bradford w:Of Plymouth Plantation https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/24950/pg24950-images.html But alass! these, when they had maize (yt is, Indean corne) they thought it as good as a feast, and wanted not only for 5. days togeather, but some time 2. or 3. months togeather, and neither had bread nor any kind of corne. en 1828 Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792–1862) Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach IV 1 Carey, Lea & Carey Philadelphia Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/41913/pg41913-images.html Every house has a garden. Many meadows, like those in England, are enclosed with three rails, lying one above the other; Indian corn is cultivated in the fields; the grass was dry and withered. 23 Here and there an effort had been made to clear the land, and something like a field had been marked out, where, among the stumps and ashes of burnt trees, a scanty crop of Indian corn was growing. 214 The Pomegranate Seeds Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields. But, just at the time when my story begins, the good lady was very busy, because she had the care of the wheat, and the Indian corn, and the rye and barley and, in short, of the crops of every kind, all over the earth; en Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book w:Eliza Leslie https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/40943/pg40943-images.html 1857 T. B. Peterson Philadelphia Autumn soup Season them with pepper. Put them in; and after the whole has boiled three hours at least, take four ears of young Indian corn, and having grated off all the grains, add them to the soup and boil it an hour longer. XXI It was a sort of scene which Adam had beheld almost weekly for years; he knew by heart every arabesque flourish in the framed specimen of Bartle Massey’s handwriting which hung over the schoolmaster’s head, by way of keeping a lofty ideal before the minds of his pupils; he knew the backs of all the books on the shelf running along the whitewashed wall above the pegs for the slates; he knew exactly how many grains were gone out of the ear of Indian corn that hung from one of the rafters; . 3 In the hot days of summer, over against the dark forest the bright green of our little patch of Indian corn rippled in the wind. en colorful variety of maize A variety of maize in which the kernels are variously coloured, rather than being all of the same colour. en flint corn calico corn en variety of candy corn, a confection A variety of candy corn that contains chocolate in addition to honey-based candy. Derived terms en corn Q11575 maize Related terms en Indian meal kaffir corn Descendants 1 cy india-corn Translations a type of maize German: de Hartmais m Hindi: hi मक्का m, hi मकई f Norman: nrf maïs m Pawnee: paw kiciirit Sanskrit: sa मर्कक m मर्ककः, sa मर्कटान्न n मर्कटान्नम् Tzotzil: tzo ixim References en Grains Maize (plant) Vegetables