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The word jicama "Pachyrhizus erosus" (First attested in 1604 (Haugen, Jason D. 2009. Borrowed borrowings: Nahuatl loan words in English. Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, (3).|Haugen 2009)) comes from Nahuatl <xicamatl> /ʃikama-tl/ which is in turn composed of two PSUA roots xi- "skin, husk, peel" and *kama "sweet tuber, camote". This word is not attested outside of Nahuan, and can be reconstructed only for proto-Nahuatl.

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