erdapfel

Updated: May 6, 2025

Thus in Italy also men called the potato 'tartufo, but added 'bianco, the white truffle; a name now giving way to 'patata. Thus was it, too, with the French; who called it apple, but 'apple of the earth'; even as in many of the provincial dialects of Germany it bears the name of 'erdapfel' or earth-apple to this day.

Richard Chenevix Trench - On the Study of Words