![]() One of the words that came up this week in the French Conversation Group I’m part of was chaire, which means chair (a professorship), pulpit, rostrum or throne. In Taiwan this means peanut – a potato is a 馬鈴薯 (mǎlíngshǔ), or “horse bell potato / yam”, probably because potatoes look like the bells used on horses. In Mandarin Chinese, a potato is a 土豆 (tǔdòu) or “earth bean”, at least in Mainland China. The more common German word for potato, Kartoffel, and related words in other languages, comes from the Italian tartufolo, a diminutive of tartufo (truffle), from the Medieval Latin *territūberum or the Latin terrae tūber (tuber of the earth). The Dutch word aardpeer means “earthpear”, and refers to the Jerusalem artichoke ( Helianthus tuberosus), a kind of sunflower native to North America. It’s cognate with the Luxembourgish Gromper (potato), the Slovenian krompir (potato), the Macedonian компир (potato). Īnother German word for potato is Grundbirne (ground pear), which is used in Austria. This is also the root of the English word potato, and similar words in other languages. It would be a fun way to practise using my Dutch.Īnother Dutch word for potato is patat, borrowed from the French patate (potato), which is used mainly in Canada and Louisiana, and comes from the Spanish patata (potato), from the Taíno batata (sweet potato) and/or the the Quechua papa (potato). In case you’re feeling hungry now, here are a few receipes for potato-based dishes (in Dutch).
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