My Mum used to complain when we were at our Twin Church in Germany (in a small town in Rheinland-Pfalz) that she got called Frau Pfarrer rather than being allowed to have a name of her own...
Because History Reasons the Estonian for potato is an loanword from the German-flavour-of German: "kartul/kartuli/kartulid" (Brother lived in a suburb of Tartu where most of the streets are named for fruits and vegetables - generally they are pretty opaque to those of us used to Indo-European languages apart from that and "meloni"!)
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Date: 2021-02-20 01:28 am (UTC)Because History Reasons the Estonian for potato is an loanword from the German-flavour-of German: "kartul/kartuli/kartulid" (Brother lived in a suburb of Tartu where most of the streets are named for fruits and vegetables - generally they are pretty opaque to those of us used to Indo-European languages apart from that and "meloni"!)