Welcome, Kay!

I'd heard a thing on the radio about turkey (the bird). Apparently there has long been mass confusion worldwide about where the bird came from, so each language gave it a name attributing it to, what is to them, a foreign, exotic, faraway land. In Turkish, it's hindi, which sounds like they believe it was from India! Further support for this is found in Scandinavian words for the same bird - I believe, for example, it's kalkun in Norwegian ("from Calcutta" or something like that) Also, in French, it's dindon (or is it dinde?), more or less equivalent to d'Inde: from India.