• Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    They’re written in German/Austrian.

    Paradeiser is tomato,
    Kürbis is pumpkin,
    Melone is melon,
    Salatgurke is cucumber,
    Melanzani is eggplant.

    • spechter@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      I’m a native speaker and I’ve never heard Paradeiser until three weeks ago

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Native speaker of German or native speaker of Austrian? Because yeah, that’s perhaps the most Austrian word in existence…

        • Schlecknits@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          I was raised in near Vienna and I heard the word often. However I’ve moved to Tyrol recently and it isn’t really used here.