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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Even the etymological family is a mess. They all backtrack to Latin caulis stalk, stem, cabbage stem; but even in closely related language varieties they might mean different plant varieties, like

  • Galician, general - col wild kale/cabbage/whatever, collards
  • Galician, south - couva~couve kale
  • Portuguese - couve kale
  • Spanish - col cabbage

...and of course people had to reborrow the word from Latin to refer to stems in general, to make the thing even messier. (e.g. PT "caule" stem)

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's wild how many times that root has been reborrowed for different vegetable names

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it’s wild how many times that root has been reborrowed for different vegetable names

The root is the same, but the stems and leaves are all different!