Re: What's the etymology of ketchup/catsup?

Roger Mills scripsit:

> Ml. mata hari 'sun' (eye of the day)
Interesting that English used to use the same metaphor, now transferred to a
flower: the daisy < day's eye.  One of JRRTs riddles from the _Hobbit_
refers to this:

        An eye in a blue face
        Saw an eye in a green face
        "That eye is like to thus eye,"
        Said the first eye,
        "But in low place, not in high place."

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