Earlier this year I had the Garden Toast breakfast shown below at the Garden Table restaurant near the Broad Ripple neighborhood in Indianapolis. It was basically upscale bacon and eggs on toast with smashed avocado, which got me thinking about the word "guacamole".
I've always pronounced it with a long "E" at the end, but when I heard it in Spanish, which concludes the word with a long "A" sound instead, I realized guacamole must be the two words, "guaca" and "mole", smashed together. As you can read more about at the link below, guacamole is derived from the Nahuatl (an Indigenous people of Mexico) word “ahuacamolli,” which is a combination of the words “ahuacatl,” meaning avocado, and “molli,” meaning sauce. Over time it was shortened to “guacamole.”
For whatever that was worth, I found it fascinating.
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