What The Names of Fruits & Vegetables Mean
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2023
- In this video, we take a look at the origins behind the names of a number of fruits, vegetables, and other crops, and discover what they really mean.
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[2] Wikipedia.org
[3] Wiktionary.org
[4] Britannica.com
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[12] Binkowski, Brooke. "Does the Word 'Guacamole' Mean 'Testicle Sauce'?" Snopes.com, Snopes Media Group, 8 February, 2016. www.snopes.com/fact-check/gua...
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In French and some German dialects (primarily the southern ones like Austrian and Bavarian), "potatoes" are called "earth apples" ("pomme de tierre" or "erdapfel", respectively).
In other German dialects, including the standard "high German" used in TV, Radio, etc... it's called "Kartoffel", which long story short basically derives from the Italian word for "truffle".
In both cases it's because potatoes somewhat resemble those other things. Or at least they resemble them enough that people called them those things.
Lastly, in most German-speaking places, "French fries" (or "chips" for our British friends) are typically called "pommes frites" or simply "pommes", after the French term.
Just some additional fun facts for everybody.
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same in Dutch language we cal them earth apples
Maybe you mean, "pommes de terre", no 'i'. Also the short form in French, is normally "frites", not "pommes", because pomme is apple.
Russian also uses the German word for potato, "kartofel" ("картофель" ), more commonly informally called "kartoshka" ("картошка").
In Mandarin they are 土豆, which means earth/dirt bean
09:34 in the other Germanic languages that I know the word for strawberry, the name means "earth-berry", as in Norwegian "jordbær" and German "erdbeere"... well, except for the Swedish "jordgubbe", which I can only interpret as meaning "earth-bloke" or "earth-geezer". Don't ask me what they were thinking.
It seems the Anglo-Saxons called them "earthberries" alongside "strawberries", but that the latter won out
@@Fireoflearning interesting! In Norwegian we go all out when it comes to wild strawberries btw, we call them "markjordbær", basically "soil-earth-berries". Compare with Knut Hamsun's work "Markens grøde", "Growth of the Soil". Though "mark" can also refer to a forest or other wild area.
The Swedes call wild strawberries "smultron", as in the Ingmar Bergman film Wild Strawberries -- actually "Smultronstället", "The Wild Strawberry Place".
Pardon the perhaps overly convoluted comment / unnecessary references.
The word for strawberry is much the same in Mandarin, roughly translating into English as "grass-berry"
@ryanquon1608 Interesting, they must've adopted a rough translation of the English term
The name for wild strawberries is Russian is земляника, which also translates to earth-berry!
Man, rosemary and oregano have some stunningly beautiful name origins. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed them. Plus I love the dry humor lol. Thank you for another excellent video.
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
In Venezuelan Spanish, Batata is used for sweet potatoes and Papa (different from Papá which means dad) is used for normal potatoes. Nice to see the original words survived this long.
In the Canary Islands we also use Papa for potatoes
Same in Argentina, also nice to point out the tilde a lot of foreigners completely ignore those
In Perú sweet potatos are known as "camote"
Same in New Mexican Spanish. Papa/s also means food in general. "Quieras papas?" (Do you want food?)
Or Do you want to eat?
In Swedish, 'korn' means grain, but is also the word used nowadays for barley. We use the word 'majs' for maize/corn, and the corn kernels are called 'majskorn' (maize grains).
Fun fact: spanish calls lavender lavanda, which is the direct latin participle (idk if i got that right) of washing, meaning something that's meant to wash. In the same way, Amanda means the one who's meant to be loved
Hi, spanish speaker here ✋🏼 wish it was true but sadly it's not, "lavada" means "washed"... "LavaNda" might be similar but it's not the same meaning, it strictly refers to the plant
@@sofiag.m3803 the ethimology of lavanda, the word in spanish for lavender, comes from the latin participle (which is a form of conjugation for verbs) lavanda, same thing that happened to agenda, over time they became the word for a specific object. Lavada is an adjetive, not a verb, but both lavada and lavanda share the same origin, lavare, so I get why you found this confusing!
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“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.
-Acts 3:19
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@@PeterMartyrVermigli_is_cool Stop spamming comments with Bronze Age fairy tales.
Sup carrot man ✌️
@@lococomrade3488Shut up. Let him Preach.
@Holdenos Nope. Science forever. Death to Superstitious Bullshit.
Jesus is just as valid as Zeus or Krishna or Big Bird. It's fictional lies.
Yall live in the Digital Age. Catch up.
I never really thought about avocados looking like testicles until now. And now I'm imagining the Aztecs making a lot of jokes using avocados.
Were avocados smaller back then?
Yams are something else completely different here in New Zealand. Sweet potatoes are called kumara and yams are small tubers from South America known as oca there.
Pretty sure that corn and corm were the same word at one time. Also, I learned at one point that strawberries used to be spelled strayberries because they go everywhere.
Ok, now post the video where you read out the 34 euphemisms you found for testicles. I want to (Fire of) LEARN! :P
Peppercorns, corned beef.
"Corn" doesn't even have to be a plant. It can be "grains" like grains of sand.
In the case of corned beef, it's corns of salt.
In Spanish Strawberry is either Fresa or Frutilla. Idk what fresa means but I know frutilla just means “small fruit”. That one stuck with me because as a kid I once heard an Argentinian call strawberries that and I thought it was funny.
Fresa comes from the French word "fraise", which means strawberry
Argentina is also one of the few Spanish-speaking countries where pineapples are called ananás, instead of piña
@@leonannaves9273 and fraise comes from latin "fragum"
I love the sense of mystique behind the name cherry
3:47 Interesting fact, Spanish uses the exact same word for both grenade and pomegranate
I got an ad for an energy drink after he said to feel free to do some push-ups
Funny how in Portuguese we just call them "batatas", with sweet potato being a literal translation and regular potatoes being called "english potatoes".
I'm Portuguese and the correct term is just potato (batata), not "English potatoes"
@@FuriaKKK they said in Portuguese, not in Portugal :) I don't remember the last time I heard 'batata inglesa', but it used to be a thing in Brazil
@@dmmartins who cares about Brazil? It doesn't even speak a standard Portuguese like Portugal and the rest of the African countries.
@@FuriaKKK some people care so much they complain on the internet that they speak differently.
@@dmmartins não fales de boca cheia, e não te engasgues com a minha pila
Açaí also known as the Brazilian beauty, the pride of the Amazon and the life of the people of Pará comes from the Tupi yasa'i, "fruit that cries" "earth", in allusion to the juice released by its fruit.
Cá em Portugal é o açalá
@@ZecaPinto1 "Açalá" não é um termo conhecido ou utilizado em língua portuguesa para se referir ao açaí. O nome "açaí" é amplamente utilizado tanto em português quanto em outras línguas para se referir à fruta e ao seu suco.
O açaí é uma fruta nativa da região amazônica do Brasil e seu nome tem origem na língua indígena tupi.
@@vitorpereira9515 tá bom mas fica açaí o frango que eu vou açalá o javali 😆
@@ZecaPinto1 Ora seu! 😂
You were wise to pause before yams. Allowed everyone time to pick up their pitchforks & light their torches & head your way.
Italian "pomme d'oro" name gave Polish the "pomidor" for tomato.
The last one actually surprised me that the word avocado comes from unknown origins.
i have heard your voice so much in such serious context so now my friends find my sense of humor extremely weird for simply laughing at the word "testicle"
This video made me hungry 😋
Your food videos are legendary.
In Australia we call 'cantaloupe' rockmelon. I'm not sure why we use a different name but there you go.
People think it's weird what we call capsicums, too.
This is fascinating!
Corn didn't just mean cereal. It pretty much also just meant fruit. So for instance an acorn comes from Old English "Eikorn" meaning oak corn.
in dutch the name for squirrel is more like Eikorn
i love your videos :D
You resisted the low hanging fruit my friend,congratulations are in order!👏👏👏
This was fun! Thanks for doing this!
I love how across time and in different countries we have always been obsessed about our private parts! Great video!
Thanks! It was very interesting.
This was actually so interesting though??
Also damn I love your voice, it sounds so cool /gen
Another video I only watched because I was bored. I'm glad I did.
Awesome one for the strawberry, I remember us talking about that in the comments months ago
2 minutes in and my mind is already blown. Damn good video. Keep um coming.
I live in a very mountanous area and oregano brings me joy, so this video appealed to me.
What an amazing video! Bravo!
I love the sound of your voice ❤
That was amazing x lol
Loved the way he said 500!! pages on strawberries x
So hilariously
educational x
Your videos are great
Can you do a video on cactus barriers and why we dont farm them but should.
In my city people plant cactus behind their fences or walls to keep the homeless from sleeping there.
Super cool!
THIRTY-FOUR EUPHEMISMS FOR
Subtle Bach (Brandenburg Concertos) in the background there ;)
Great video 😊
My dad watched it with me
In Greek, maize is formally known as αραβόσιτος (arabositos), meaning "wheat of the Arabs". The more informal name is καλαμπόκι (kalamboki).
Also, although daktulos still means finger in modern Greek, the fruit date is called χουρμάς (khourmas) from a Persian word.
Thank you for calling them kiwifruit not kiwis!
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That avocado part is nuts
6:29 Um, I have it on good authority that "peaches" come from "a can"
Same source goes on to posit that they were put there by a man...so really the true origin remains a mystery
You’re a good CZcamsr :)
It's funny how you put up a picture of apricots when discussing peaches.
You say potato, I say pahtahtoh, they said batata, let's call the whole thing starch.
Nifty!!
I'm watching an alien abduction video of yours right now 😁
Glad to have found this channel. It's been a boon for my research on food on my channel that talks about juicing with pop culture.
also the wild leak in the UK and Northern Europe looks just like Garlic and you can use the bulbs exactly the same way as garlic. I would challenge any passer by when shown native wild leak to call it anything but a garlic bulb. It is much bigger than regular garlic and the flavour is slightly different. I grow it in my garden and do nothing but pull plants up when I want some pesto.
In the United States anyway elephant garlic is a leek with a growth habit likegarlic in that it grows in cloves
the amount of views display how little people of today use the end, vastless library in their pocket for learning instead of recreation
Let's gooo!
Could you do cryptids of Europe or Asia?
even in the 70's in the UK people would call fields of grain corn fields and people will still refer to corn fields though Maize is not grown commercially in the UK yet AFAIK
🤣On why my forefathers named the avocado, ahuacatl......your silence and omission is more than clear!😂Tlazoh camati forsharing Fire, 👍and greetings 👋from central Mexico.
he literally said it's a myth that it means testicle, and he is right
Good
How about Fire of Learning do a Learning about Fire video?
A Lithuanian name for every food item name:
1.Pomidorai
2.Kokosas
3.Bananas
4.Datulės
5.Arbūzas
6.Kukurūzas
7.Salotos
8.Žiediniai Kopūstai
9.Kopūstas
10.Ridikėliai
11.Ananasas
12.Apelsinas
13.Česnakas
14.Granatas
15.Kivis
16.cukinija
17.Vyšnios
18.Baklažanas
19.Melionės
20.Bazilikas
21.Rozmarinas
22.Levandos
23.Graikiški Riešutai
24.Raudonėlis
25.Persikai
26.Batatai, Bulvės
27.Braškės
28.Avokadas
Enjoy the word comperison from the oldest still in use indoeuropian language.😊
In Brazil we called potato "English potato". We do have sweet potatos too and we called them just that, as video said we have yams too, but we just called them sweet potatos too.
In brazilian portuguese, ananas or pineaples are called "abacaxi'.
I trust you Justin
I love etymology
In Brazil, the "regular" potato is called "English potato" ("batata inglesa"). 🥔
Ironic.
In Central America they still call taters Papas.
So you don't have the balls to call avocados "testicle fruit".
I DO!
Hello! Greetings from Brazil.
In Portuguese, we use the word orégano. This accent on letter e indicates this letter must be read with the mouth opened.
pineapple is indded an excellent fruit.
Morango , milho e abacate.
In South Australia we call Cantaloupe "Rockmelon".
They’re called rockmelons everywhere in Australia, or at least everywhere I’ve been.
#DURIAN: duck or your head will hurt, in Tagalog.
Only 30 minutes late and doest though mean they were thinking when they named things? I thought Adam just got tired after a Cow or something, I am probably badly remembering a Robin McLaurin Williams stand-up routine.
Make a video about south African history.
"Joy of the Mountain" is cutest name ever
Peanut's favorite fruit or vegetable: Go!
hot dog 🌭
I wanted to hear all 34 examples... Stupid algorithm.
December 22, 1944
To the German Commander,
NUTS!
The American Commander
Wow, not joking, I was actually coincidentally thinking about that exchange last night, completely unrelated to this video.
Tomato in Italian is pomodoro which means golden Apple
great news
10:00 I've retrieved 15 examples, not including avocado, in this vid. 🤓
I see what you mean. A lot of the time, we can just look at the Germanic origin of English words, but Germans call strawberries "erdbeeren" or "dirt berries", so no luck there.
We have sweet potato, the other potato is called Irish potato in Nigeria
Nobody likes eggplants!
*kicks it*
When you realize English is just a mashup of a ton of other languages
What about razzberry & raspberry?
Sea turtles shiver at the sight of The Forbidden Berry
Excuse me? I believe I ordered the fingers, not the _fingers..._ Ughhh. THANK YOU.
_I mean really, how hard is it to take an order..??_
No Pumpkins?
Wild lettuce milk csn be refined into a semi painkiller called soapium i belive
I wonder where the word blueberry comes from
How did the grapefruit get its name?
we name cherries as (karaz) in arabic
no matter what,I still hate cherries,they're disgusting,I wonder why people even like them
Good stuff ...hashtagvegans4ever andOMG.. 😂