LL-L "Etymology" 2005.10.31 (06) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 31 October 2005 * Volume 06
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From: Hugo Zweep <Zweep at bigpond.com>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.10.31 (03) [E]

Peter (and Gabriele)
I have come into this in the middle of something, my eye caught by the word
"sipel" for onion. At home, and therefore in east Grunningen in the 1940s
and in Australia ever, after we called onions "siepels". From the german
swiebel?

Hugo Zweep

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Etymology

G'day, Hugo!

> and in Australia ever, after we called onions "siepels". From the german
> swiebel?

That's _Zwiebel_ ["tsvi:b at l], and in Northern Low Saxon of Germany 
_(t)sippel_ (<Zippel>, <Sippel>), _tsypel_ (<Ziepel>), and _tsypol_ 
(<Ziepoll>).  They come from Late Latin _cēpulla_ (_cêpulla_), which comes 
from Latin _cēpula_ (_cêpula_), the diminutive form of _cēpa_ (_cêpa_) 
'onion'.  Related is Italian _cipolla_ 'onion', the plural diminutive 
_cipolline_ (often misspelled <cipollini>) denoting those small, flattish 
Italian onions that you get in the States (for an arm and a leg), perhaps --  
actually more than likely -- in Australia as well.

Take care!
Reinhard/Ron 

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