BRASSICAS
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kale caul kohl kål
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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)
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Yeah, it's wild how many times that root has been reborrowed for different vegetable names
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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!
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