Another spelling variant of sesame, the tropical plant whose oil-rich seeds are used in cooking and food production.
Direct borrowing from Hindi 'til', with English writers representing the sound phonetically as 'gingeli' during the colonial period when contact with Indian agriculture was increasing.
Gingeli demonstrates how trade literally brings languages together—English traders had to learn Indian words for crops they'd never seen before, and these words evolved through multiple spellings before standardizing.
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