Comment on 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?

• Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You got it the wrong way around. Hebrew used a generic word for fruit, all languages translated that word as their version of apple which was generic at the time, and then much later, all languages changed the meaning of their word for apple, it’s not specific to French. The use of apple for one specific fruit is fairly recent.

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• nabladabla@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Literally yes, ground apple is potato in hebrew

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