TY - JOUR TI - On the spread and evolution of pudding AU - Stachowski, Kamil TI - On the spread and evolution of pudding AB - A better author could probably write a detective story about the word pudding. The cultural and linguistic complex associated with this word spans in its full extent a thousand years and six continents. This paper concerns itself only with its semantic evolution in English, and its spread to several of the geographically closest languages: German, French, and Italian, each of which has a different relationship with both the word and the dish. The intention is not to explain everything, it is too early for that, but rather to sketch the overall picture and thus to highlight those areas which require further investigation. VL - 2024 IS - Volume 141, Issue 2 PY - 2024 SN - 1897-1059 C1 - 2083-4624 SP - 117 EP - 137 DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.24.008.19670 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/on-the-spread-and-evolution-of-pudding KW - Chinese Muslims KW - direct and indirect loans KW - Muslim funeral terminology KW - Chinese Muslims in Kuala Lumpur