Flad Brod (1792)

[Dennis R. Preston]

>If Swedish kalrot is rutabaga, what's Swedish for kohlrabi (which,
>morpheme-by-morpheme, is kalrot)?

dInIs


>"Flatbröd" (should be trabscribed "flatbroed", not "flatbrod", with
>the "oe" pronounced as in Goethe or Goering, known at least since
>1746) was certainly used also by Swedish immigrants in Minnesota and
>elsewhere in the US. Usually it is called "tunnbroed" (thin bread)
>in Swedish, though.
>Looking for "rutabaga" in the Swedish volume may not get you far. It
>is not a Swedish word. In Swedish dialects you can find "rotbagge"
>or "rotabagge". The usual Swedish word for the plant is "kalrot"
>(with the little circle above the "a" that transforms the
>pronunciation into "o"), "coleroot".
>Jan Ivarsson
>
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>>  TRAVELS INTO POLAND, RUSSIA, SWEDEN AND DENMARK
>>  by William Coxe
>>  in five volumes
>>  THE FOURTH EDITION
>>  London: T. Cadell
>>  1792
>>
>>  VOLUME FIVE
>>  Pg. 11:  The common food of the peasant is milk, cheese, dried or
>>salted fish, and sometimes, but rarely, flesh or dried meat,
>>oatbread called _flad-brod_, baked in small cakes about the size
>>and thickness of a pancake; it is usually made twice a year.
>>
>>
>>  (OED has 1799 for "flad brod."  This is in the Norway section.
>>The term is useful to antedate because Norwegian immigrants brought
>>it to places like Minnesota...I could have sworn that I'd looked at
>>this book before, but maybe not...I was trying to find "rutabaga"
>>in the Sweden section.  Don't ask about rutabaga.  When I went to
>>the stacks, volume four on Sweden was missing.  Nothing is
>>easy!--ed.)
>>

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Dennis R. Preston
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic,
      Asian & African Languages
Michigan State University
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