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[neym] / neɪm /








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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

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.




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