Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
MEEKEN
Etymology
Verb
meeken (third-person singular simple present meekens, present participle meekening, simple past and past participle meekened)
(ambitransitive) To make or become meek or submissive.
Source: Wiktionary
Meek, Meek"en (-'n), v. t.
Definition: To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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