Where does the word barbecue?

Answer 1

The word barbecue comes from American Spanish, barbacoa, from the mid-seventeenth century. The American word is thought to be of Carib origin, from Arawakan, now Haiti.

The word in English, in its current form, was first recorded in the early 1930s.

Answer 2

When the first Spanish explorers arrived in the new world they found the indigenous peoples preserving meats in the sun. This is an age old and almost completely universal method. The chief problem with doing this is that the meats spoil and become infested with bugs. To drive the bugs away the natives would built small smoky fires and place the meat on racks over the fires. The smoke would keep the insects at bay and help in the preserving of the meat. Tradition tells us that this is the origin of Barbecue, both in process and in name. The natives of the West Indies had a word for this process, "barbacoa". It is generally believed that this is the origin of our modern word Barbecue, though there is some debate on the matter. I have been told that the origin of the word "barbacoa" is derived from the method of cooking or roasting. The indigenous peoples would dig a pit in the ground and put a whole carcass in it, cover it, and build a fire over the pit until the meat was done - usually overnight. This method of cooking was called "de barba a cola" which translated means from head to tail, or the whole carcass. "Barbacoa" was derived from "de barba a cola".

Answer 3

It comes from an American/Spanish word 'barbacoa' The word is in the Arawakan language meaning a framework of sticks used by Indians to sleep on or cure meat. The modern sense of being able to grill or cook on an open fire is from 1931

Answer 4

the word barbecue came from Caribbean

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Barbecue (along with cannibal) comes from the Carib language, spoken by the Carib people who gave their name to the Caribbean Sea.

Answer 5

Barbecue comes from the American Spanish word 'barbacoa', of Taino origin.

Answer 6

It comes from the old days