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Maxey Brooke writes [XV,2] that English tamale is from Spanish tamale . There is, however, no such Spanish word.
My explanation is that English-speakers borrowed Spanish plural tamales (whose singular is tamal ), from which they back-formed a new singular, tamale (i.e.
The least one may say is that no English dictionary published through 1987 gives a fully correct etymology for tamale or frijol(e) .
Thus, by analogy, many Americans make tamale , instead of the correct tamal , the singular of tamales ...
Chile is the country, and even the most ignorant Mexican would not call one tamal a tamale .