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Where does “kohlrabi” come from?

kohlrabi (English) comes from German Kohlrabi, from Italian rapa, from Latin rāpa, from Latin rāpum, from Proto-Indo-European rap-.

kohlrabi (English): Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes, a variety of...

Definitions

  1. Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes, a variety of...

Ancestry of “kohlrabi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanKohlrabikohlrabi
2Italianrapaturnip; inflection of rapare: ## third-person...
3Latinrāpa—
4Latinrāpum—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanrap-—

Words derived from “kohlrabi”

  • kohlrabi
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