Close Menu
    Karten

    Das Wort für „Traube“ in einigen germanischen Sprachen (+ etymologischer Ursprung)


    Das Wort für „Traube“ in einigen germanischen Sprachen (+ etymologischer Ursprung)

    Von candelita8

    View 11 Comments

    11 Comments

    1. DifficultRock9293 on

      The Yiddish and Dutch word literally means “wine grape”

    2. GyrosButPussyWrapped on

      grappe still means the same as the old french. grape is raisin but when you have a “cluster” of grapes you say a “grappe de raisin”

    3. Acc87 on

      German also still uses Traube for a general clusters. Like the word “Menschentraube” to describe a congregation of people.

    4. joehawkins_de on

      A single grape is also called Weinbeere in German, because a “Traube” refers to a cluster not to a single thing. While Weintraube is colliquially used it is botanically and semantically wrong.

    6. SBR404 on

      As an Austrian, I’ve never heard the word Weinba or -beer. Seems to be a Bavarian term mostly?

      Besides that, as some people have mentioned, Weinbeere describes a single grape, whereas Weintraube describes the whole bunch. Traube in general describes a bunch of something.

    7. idlikebab on

      I love these circular etymologies. One is “wine-berry” meaning “berry of a drink made of grapes” and the other is “grape” coming from a word meaning “to pick grapes”.

    10. Torlun01 on

      Danish should be “Vindrue”, referring to them just as “Drue” would make sense I guess, but I’ve literally never heard anyone do it.

    11. Unfair-Bike on

      So the Germanic word doesnt have a descendant in English but I assume it would be *throuve?

    Leave A Reply