By the way, for all the linguists out there looking for the "possible" proto-Language? root word for MAIZE one possibility to consider might be Latvian MIZA meaning???..... "hull, skin", i.e. a hulled plant, a grain. as root in NUO-ZALE "of the green" > MIZALE > MAIZE(LE)> MAIZE. - Andis Kaulins (J.D. Stanford University, 1971)