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sorbet

A frozen sweet dessert.

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A drink name chilled along the way

How sorbet reached English

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  1. Turkish

    şerbet

  2. Old Italian

    sorbetto

  3. Middle French

    sorbet

    ‘sweetened fruit juice’

  4. French

    sorbet

  5. English

    sorbet

The story of sorbet

The English word came from French, whose history passes through Italian to Turkish.

French is shown in the reveal but compressed on the cards because its spelling matches English.

Sources

Related

The source points to sherbet as a related borrowing.

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