[Sca-cooks] Earthapples Kartoffel
Chris Stanifer
jugglethis at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 12 19:01:18 PST 2004
--- "Kai D. Kalix" <kdkalix at gmx.de> wrote:
> German Kartoffel comes from 18c Tartuffel, italian tartufolo, latin terrae
> tufer or tuber, literally a tuber from the earth (in italian meaning
> truffle)
Not a far stretch from the Italian 'tartufolo' (truffle) to the German 'kartoffel', then, eh? I
can see how one German name for potato was derived from that of the truffle.
> In the Rhineland, potatoes are called Krumbeeren, from Grundbirne meaning
> ground-pear.
> kai
Interesting. Thanks for the info :)
William de Grandfort
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