hominy

Senso (Inglese)

A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.

Concetti

polenta

sinonimi

polenta

pearl hominy

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈhɒmɪni/

Etimologia (Inglese)

First recorded in 1629. From Powhatan ("Virginia Algonquian"), though the exact source word is in question: suggestions include uskatahomen, appuminnéonash (“parched corn”), and rokohamin (“parched, ground corn”), the last yielding also the unclipped rockahominy.