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The Forme of Cury is a English cookbook and a extensive collection of medieval English recipes from the 14th

The Name usage of Curry in India

The popular dish of India was shared in English around 1747 when a curry recipe was published by Hannah Glasse

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The word Curry in India is delegated to the spice mix and a Tree found in India. The Tree is originally called (Murraya koenigii) also known as sweet neem or kadi patta. Became later known as the curry tree, which was anglicized by settlers during the west Indies period. The tree is often used in KARI dishes of eastern cooking and throughout Eurasia.

The name usage of the word Curry in India is merely a adoption from the anglicized form of the Tamil

word "KARI" which means 'sauce' or relish for rice. The Tamil people of Sri Lanka India, adopted the anglicized form for the word of Kari around 17 th century.

As the True original name of the spice blend of India is called Kari, though mostly now known today as Curry spice. Which is a blend of spice powders used throughout India and Eurasia.

#3.Kari anglicized was first described in a mid-17th century Portuguese cookbook by members of the British East India Company trading with Tamil (Indian) merchants along the Coromandel Coast of southeast India, becoming known as a "spice blend used for making kari dishes. Thus now known or called Kari Podi or Curry powder.

CUR and Kurs of the northland

There is much mentioning of a early norther region named Courland or Kurland. Which coast lies along the Gulf of Riga. On the west, it is bordered by the Baltic Sea, directly south of Finland. The Name Courland is derived from the Curonian / Kur settlers. Until the middle of the 20th century, they were usually considered a Finnic tribe akin to the Livonians. Since the 20th century, most so-called sources “refer” to the Curonians as a Baltic tribe.

The Curonians or Kurs were a tribe living on the shores of the Baltic Sea from the 5th to the 16th centuries, when they merged with other Baltic tribes. They gave their name to the region of Courland (Kurzeme), and they spoke the Old Curonian language.

Historian (Marika Mägi) proposes that Curonian was not originally seen as ethnic, but social category, depicting Eastern Baltic seafarers, who often engaged in piracy. She believes that early meaning of the name also included Finnic tribes living in northern Curonia and Saaremaa is (historical parallel name of the latter has been Kuresaar, "Kure-island"). Which was possible adapted from Kvenland, known as Cwenland, Kænland.

Marika Mägi sees origin of the Curonian name in as a Finnic word such as Kura (kuri, Kure), meaning "something bad, despiteful, angry. Sources of Finnic elements in Curonian language have been associated with the Finnic language, Livonian. Though doubtful as first written sources about Livonian appeared much later in the 16th century.In closing to the various forms of related words, is lastly the many differences amongst regions and counties that share similar words as in the far north region of Finland. Example In Iceland and Faroe Islands, Kári is a male name, based on a Scandinavian god of wind of the same name. While In Finland, Kari is a male name derived from the Greek Makarios (or Macarius). In Norway, Kari is diminutive of Katharine, meaning "pure".

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