Introduction
There's a very cool fact: cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, kohlrabi, and others are all the species of plant, namely Brassica oleracea , selectively bred for different parts of the plant. (https://www.google.com/search?q=brassica+oleracea+selection )
Only recently did I realized that many of the English words are related to each other too! (It's probably much more obvious in the other languages that have these words)
Teaser
cole slaw ,
kale ,
kohlrabi ,
cauliflower
Full Text
Proto-Indo-European *keh₂ulós tube? cylinder? bone?
Balto-Slavic *káuˀlas
Hellenic
Ancient Greek καυλός kaulós stem, stalk, shaft
Greek καυλί kavlí penis (vulgar)
Latin caulis stalk, stem, especially cabbage stem, penis
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Sanskrit कुल्या kulyā creek, canal
Italic
Latin caulis stalk, stem, especially cabbage stem, penis
Western Romance
French chou cabbage
Italian cavolo cabbage
Spanish col cabbage
Old English cawel
Middle English col
English cole
Middle English colwort
English colewort
English collard (greens)
Irish cál
Middle English cale
Old Norse kál
Danish kål cabbage, kale
Icelandic kál any Brassica plant
Finnish kaali
Old High German kōlo
Vulgar Latin *cauli-flōre cabbage flower
Western Romance
French chou-fleur cauliflower
Wolof sufëlëer cauliflower
Italian cavolfiore cauliflower
German Karfiol cauliflower
Hungarian karfiol cauliflower
Serbo-Croatian карфиол karfiol cauliflower
Polish kalafior cauliflower
Spanish coliflor cauliflower
Tagalog kóliplór cauliflower
English cauliflower
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Collected English words
cole ,
cole slaw ,
colewort ,
collard (greens) ,
colcannon ,
kale ,
kohlrabi ,
cauliflower
But notably not part of this word family (but all Brassicas) are:
broccoli , despite the 'col' in the middle. broccoli is a plural dimunitive of brocco , just cannoli is a plural dimunitive of canna : "tube, cane" (see Cane ). brocco is probably means "pointy", related to "brooch" and "brocade".kailan /gailan (or "Chinese kale") which, despite the 'kail' sequence, is really kai (or gai) + lan, and ultimately from Old Chinese *kreːds + *ɡ·raːn cabbage , of unknown origin, which is not explainable as some weird French version of caulis . Though it may be a weird French versions of caput : "head".Brussels sprouts , which of course is named after the city of Brussels. But the words for "Brussels sprouts" in most European languages other than English are in this family: in Romance languages, they are generally called "cabbage of Brussels", and uses the Romance "cabbage' words in this family (e.g., chou de Bruxelles , cavolino di Bruxelles , col de Bruselas ); and in many Germanic languages they are called "rose-cabbage", and likewise uses the version of this word, e.g. rosenkål , Rosenkohl , etc.
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