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, the division into morphemes in Spanish is tamal-es whereas English-speakers took it to be tamale-s ). English has both frijol and frijole , the latter of which may be explained in the same way: English-speakers borrowed Spanish plural frijoles (whose singular is frijol ), from which they back-formed a new singular, frijole (again, the morpheme division in Spanish is frijol-es whereas certain English-speakers took it to be frijole-s ). English frijol , on the other hand, is derived straightforwardly from the Spanish singular.
In general, back-formation of new singulars from plurals is a sign that the plural is textually more frequent than the singular (indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary lists only frijoles and no singular form whatsoever for English).
One theory is that when flour tortillas became available in northern Mexico, tacos de frijoles, or bean burritos, were easy to carry in the saddle-bags of the vaqueros (cowboys), so for this reason they came to be called burritos as though they were the sidekicks of the vaquero’s horse.
Although English tamales , frijoles , and blintses , as now usually pronounced, appear to be derived from Spanish tamales , Spanish frijoles , and Yiddish blintses , they are actually innovations, formed in English by the addition of English -s (in the first two cases) or -es (in the third) to the innovative English singulars.
Literally a little burro or little donkey, a burrito has come to mean a taco made of a wheat flour tortilla instead of a corn tortilla, filled with meat, rice, frijoles (beans), and chile, then folded and rolled up.
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