Sjokolade ~ Chocolate

[AlterEgox5]

Anyone know the etymology for the "sjokolade," the Norwegian word for chocolate? I want to know when it first came into use.

You're my hero if you know.

[blacbird]

Looks like a simple cognate to me, "chocolate" rendered into Norwegian phonetic spelling. I can't see that there's any other likely etymology. Other similar language equivalents I found:

French: chocolat
German: schokolade
Welsh: siocled
Tagalog: tsokolate

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[AlterEgox5]

Yeah, but I need to know when it came into being or at least the best known assumption of the year it appeared in the language.

[Mad Queen]

I have no idea, but this guy (http://absolutewrite.com/forums/member.php?u=37596) is Norwegian. He can look the word up in a Norwegian dictionary for you.

[AlterEgox5]

Fantastic! Thanks. :)

[Tsu Dho Nimh]

Anyone know the etymology for the "sjokolade," the Norwegian word for chocolate? I want to know when it first came into use.

You're my hero if you know.

Any time after the substance became known to the Europeans - check when it was first tried in Spain. By the 1600s, chocolate drinking was all over the place.

[Medievalist]

How long you got? There's a nifty Norwegian equivalent to the OED, but my Norweigian prof is off galavanting in the Galapagos.