Chipotle

The word chipotle ("smoked jalapeño chili"; first attested in English originally as chilpotle or chilpocle (Haugen 2009)) comes from the Nahuatl /tʃil-pok-tli/ <chilpoctli>. The word is composed of the roots chil- /tʃil-/ "chili" and po:k- "smoke" (and the -tli absolutive suffix).

• chil- is derived either from PSUA *tsira "red" from PSUA *sita "red", or from *tsiri "singe, burn".
• po:k- is from the Nahua verbal root po:ka "to smoke". This root may either be related to the PSUA root *po:tsa "to swell, to inflate" or it may be a loan from Téenek (Huastec Maya) pau "smoke" with the pre-Nahua verbalizing suffix -ka.