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The word chia (Salvia hispanica, first attested in 1832 Haugen (2009)) comes from Nahuatl <chietl> /tʃie-tl/ with the same meaning. In turn it has been argued (by whom?) to be derived as a compound of chiawa "grease" and (y)etl "bean".