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Certain: The standard etymology in the RAE dictionary and in Corriente; no serious doubt.Plants & animals · Everyday

bellota

acornfruto de la encina y el roble

Comes from Arabic

بَلُّوطَة

ballūṭa

“an acorn”«una bellota»

Arabic today says

بَلُّوط

ballūṭ

And it still does

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The story

Ballūṭa is "an acorn"; in Arabic ballūṭ is both the nut and the holm oak. It is what Iberian "de bellota" pigs feed on.Ballūṭa es «una bellota»; ballūṭ en árabe es tanto el fruto como la encina. Es el alimento del cerdo ibérico «de bellota».

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