[Sca-cooks] Earthapples Kartoffel

[Chris Stanifer]

--- "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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