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- Swedish · borrowed fromrotabagge
- English todayrutabaga
First attested in 1799, borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) + bagge (“lump, bunch”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
rutabaga
Today it means: The swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica Full definition →
Swedish rotabagge