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[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] GojuRyu@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Meitemark" in Norwegian. Which is a strange word when I considered it, so I looked it up. Meite is the word for fishing with edible/biological bait. So that makes sense.

Meite probably comes from norse "meita" from cut/slice from the meaning to do a stabbing motion.

This makes no sense.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's like in French where pretty much everything is a kind of Apple.

So a potato is a "ground apple"

[–] krawutzikaputzi@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

Same in Austria german: Erdapfel

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

In Dutch also 🙋‍♀️

Do we get bonus point now? :)

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Incidentally potato is called that in old dialected Norwegian as well(Archaic as its not really used anymore)

[–] Natanael 2 points 2 months ago

Daggmask in Sweden. Mask for worm, dagg for moisture on the ground