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Latin inoculo 'to ingraft an eye or a bud of one tree into another'. In English, potatoes have eyes, but in Latin trees did. Does any other language use a synonym for eye for bud? I had wondered if inoculation had anything to do with the evil eye (invidia 'envy').
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