Re: Herbs and Spices

There are several in Kash, fewer in Gwr and Prevli. Among the Kash (analogues, of course):

tandom ~tatom ~cloves
pirit ~peppercorns (several varieties from hot to mild)
uku a food grain ~rice or maybe ~millet
coloçe ~soybean; sucoloç ~soy sauce/nam pla; penjo ~tofu
yara ~allium spp. (onion, garlic etc)
petip ~garlic
sukekevu ~honey (produced by the kekevu [~bee] insect)
moco ~capsicum spp. (bell peppers, jalapeños et al., hot to mild)
otatap ~cucurbita spp. (melons, cukes etc.)
umalurit an oil derived from the alurit tree's seed pods, very bitter, sometimes used
(just a drop or two) for flavoring, otherwise it's a fuel and lubricant........
krende ~currants
ekaceyak 'sour leaf' (dried) used to make a tea-- it has another name in Prevli, where
it's native-- they eat the fresh leaves (~mustard greens?) but they deteriorate
quickly and aren't exported
tisip pambara 'black berry' ~coffee bean
susambara ('black sauce') for coloring and flavoring, perhaps from ~squid ink.
kreles, kreleçu, kreçu weeds in general
trufa grass (cultivated, lawn type)
okam wild grass spp.
yosu ~taro (Prevli yotsu; they eat it boiled in chunks or mashed (~poi) and dilute
it to a mush (lilis) for baby-food) A curiosity amongst the Kash...
vondo (< Prevli) a plant poison for arrows; used medically as a muscle relaxant
vunja a plant-root extract to stun fish (Prevli vunzå)
kundamakra ~LSD ?? (Prevli gunzå magra) psychotropic plant extract, used by Lañ-lañ
shamans to induce trance/hallucinations; some Kash play around with it
too...though it's hard to get. The Kash word folk-etymoligizes to "laugh
marrow/essence" ha ha

too late to check the dictionary again, but we have banana and mango/papaya
analogues too. And citrus. The Lañ-lañ have "apel", a fruit, but I'm not sure
what it is.

Kash are big wine (poren) drinkers, but I don't know what they make them from :-(

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