Where does “aardappelpuree” come from?
aardappelpuree (Dutch) comes from Dutch puree, from French purée, from Middle French puree, from Old French puree, from French purer, from Old French purer, from Latin purare, from Latin pūrus — to be clean, pure.
aardappelpuree (Dutch): mashed potatoes
Ancestry of “aardappelpuree”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Dutch | puree | puree |
| 2 | French | purée | puree; feminine singular of the past participle... |
| 3 | Middle French | puree | — |
| 4 | Old French | puree | — |
| 5 | French | purer | to make pure |
| 6 | Old French | purer | — |
| 7 | Latin | purare | — |
| 8 | Latin | pūrus | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pewH- | to be clean, pure |