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First recorded in 1629. From Powhatan ("Virginia Algonquian"). Probably from uskatahomen, or from appuminnéonash ("parched corn"). Alternatively, perhaps a short form of rockahominy, from Powhatan rokohamin (“parched, ground corn”).
- A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.
- (hulled, lye-soaked, cooked kernels): nixtamal
- ^ "hominy", the Oxford Dictionary of English edited by Angus Stevenson (Oxford University Press, 2010) / Oxford Reference Online, via the State Library of Tasmania, accessed 5 June 2012: 
- ^ "hominy", An A-Z of Food and Drink edited by John Ayto (Oxford university Press, 2002) / Oxford Reference Online, via the State Library of Tasmania, accessed 5 June 2012: 
- ^ “hominy” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
- ^ listed in William Strachey's vocabulary of Powhatan