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When I came home, Alicia on my hip, a can of freshly roasted coffee in my hand, Mami was peeling ñame and yautía tubers for that night’s supper.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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Columbus had seen the yam in Guinea an applied the African negro name, igname, ñame, whence the English, yam.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.