Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Twenty tongues worth of strawberries

List 2
STRAWBERRY in Twenty European Languages

Aardbei – Dutch
Awberrystray – Igpay Atinlay
Eabbean – Bavarian
Erdbeere – German
Eper - Hungarian
Frago – Esperanto
Fragola - Italian
Fraise – French
Fresa - Castellan
Hamtsùrus – Romany
Jordbær – Danish
Jordgubbe – Swedish
Majofa – Occitane
Mansikka – Finnish
Marrubi. – Basque
Morango – Portuguese
Maduixa – Catalan
Soo thallooin – Manx
Syfien - Welsh
Syvyen – Cornish

Organic strawberry in Lozzi, Corsica. I think fragola is Corsican for strawberry.

1 comment:

M L Jassy said...

Toot-sadeh - Hebrew.
(Pronounce toot as in 'soot'.) Cute, ain't it? It means something like "field berry".