[Sca-cooks] Earthapples Kartoffel

[Kai D. Kalix]

Greetings,
Chris Stanifer <jugglethis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm initially inclined to say that 'earthapples' were potatoes, if only
> because of the similarity
> between the Dutch 'aardappel', the German 'Erdäpfel' or 'Kartoffel', and
> the French 'Pommes de
> Terre'...all of which refer to the potato, and all of which mean 'earth
> apple' or 'apple of the
> earth' (except perhaps 'kartoffel')
[snip]

German Kartoffel comes from 18c Tartuffel, italian tartufolo, latin terrae
tufer or tuber, literally a tuber from the earth (in italian meaning
truffle)
In the Rhineland, potatoes are called Krumbeeren, from Grundbirne meaning
ground-pear.
kai

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