Etymology

lingonberry

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Today it means: A berry-bearing shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Full definition →

English berry ← Middle English berie ← Old English berġe
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The story

  1. Swedishlingon
  2. Proto-Germanic*bazją
  3. Proto-West Germanic*baʀi
  4. Old Englishberġe
  5. Middle Englishberie
  6. Englishberry
  7. English todaylingonberry

From Swedish lingon (“cowberry, lingonberry”) + English berry.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.