Etymology

cranberry

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Today it means: A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium. Full definition →

German Low German Kraanbeere
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  1. German Low German · derived fromKraanbeere
  2. English todaycranberry

Adapted in the 1640s from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German Kraanbeere, from Kraan m (which means and is cognate with crane) + Beere f (which means and is cognate with berry). Equivalent to cran- + berry. Via PIE cognate with Polish żurawina, Ukrainian журавли́на (žuravlýna) (akin to жураве́ль (žuravélʹ, “crane”)); Latvian dzērvene < dzērve (“crane”).

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