Q:I just went to a name etymology site and it gave me that. What'd you mean by "derived"?
I was scoffing at the suggestion that the Spanish name was derived from the English word rather than being a variation on the Spanish jacinto (which is descended from the same Latinized Greek as the English hyacinth). I realize you probably didn’t mean to give that impression — talking about cross-language equivalents for a unilingual audience is full of pitfalls — and I’m probably oversensitive to suggestions of Anglocentrism.
(Oops, meant this to be private. Oh well. In re.)
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