trigo

/ˈtɾiɡo/ · B2 · noun · m

wheat

trigo — wheat

🌾 sounds like TREE-go: wheat stalks tower like a tree and go to the mill

Trigo comes from Latin triticum, 'that which is threshed' (from terere, to rub or thresh). Sound hook: TREE-go, grain you thresh, then it goes to the mill to become bread.

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