Editing Areca nut (section)

==Etymology==

The term ''areca'' originated from [[Dravidian languages]], cognates of which are:<ref>{{cite book | last=Burrow | first=T. | last2=Emeneau | first2=M.B. | title=A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary | publisher=Clarendon Press | series=Digital dictionaries of South Asia | year=1984 | edition=2 | isbn=978-0-19-864326-5 | url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/burrow_query.py?qs=a%E1%B9%ADaikk%C4%81y&searchhws=yes&matchtype=exact | access-date=2024-10-10 | at=Entry 88}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Krishnamurti | first = Bhadriraju | title = The Dravidian Languages | author-link = Bhadriraju Krishnamurti | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2003 | isbn = 0-521-77111-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=54fV7Lwu3fMC | page=9}}</ref>
* {{langx|ml|അടയ്ക്ക|translit=aṭaykka}}
* {{langx|kn|ಅಡಿಕೆ|translit=adike}}
* {{langx|ta|அடைக்காய்|translit=aḍaikkāy}}<ref name="MW_Collegiate">{{Citation |author=Merriam-Webster |author-link=Merriam-Webster |title=Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary |publisher=Merriam-Webster |url=http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/collegiate/ |postscript=. |access-date=2015-03-24 |archive-date=2020-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010163505/https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/subscriber/login?redirect_to=%2Fcollegiate%2F |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The terms dates back to the [[16th century]] when Dutch and Portuguese sailors took the nut from India to Europe.