The story
- German · borrowed fromWurzel“root”
- English todaywurzel
From German Wurzel (“root”), via mangelwurzel, a root crop cultivated for livestock feed beginning in the 18th century.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
wurzel
Today it means: A rural, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin. Full definition →
German Wurzel