It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social · 2 months ago

It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz · 2 months ago

The English for “ananas” is “pineapple”, did the English really think they grew on pine trees?

slazer2au@lemmy.world · edit-2 2 months ago

wewbull@feddit.uk · 2 months ago

It’s their superficial resemblance to pinecones.

Fonzie!@ttrpg.network · 2 months ago

It’s a bit cherry picked, but only a bit, since there are a few languages that just copied the English word later on.
Japanese and Korean come to mind.

this@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 2 months ago

That actually makes it funnier to me because ananas would be easier to pronounce in Japanese vs pineapple. Ananansu(u is silent) vs Painappuru.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

I thought it was more “apples of the Earth”, n’est-ce pas?