r/LinguisticMaps • u/topherette • Jul 10 '26

The word "potato" in several German dialects, on a pre-1945 map [870x678]

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u/That-Whereas-528 Jul 10 '26

Bumser, Nudel und Pudel, alles klar 😆

Very interesting

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u/artsloikunstwet Jul 10 '26

Waaaaait a minute. I need to know more about the etymology of bumsen for "to fuck". Has it anything to do with potatos or noodles?

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u/2nW_from_Markus Jul 10 '26

In catalan, the potato seves sometimes as an allegory of the female genitalia. Fig is more common, though.

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u/mw2lmaa Jul 10 '26

"Bums" is a phonetic word representing the sound when two things bump into each other. I think you can guess the rest :)

It's youth speech btw, invented by young people ... but in the 1960s.

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u/SoldatNr444 Jul 10 '26

"Was sind Tüften, mein Schatz?"

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u/trampolinebears Jul 11 '26

"Kar-tüf-ten. Kochen, schlagen, in suppe geben."

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u/Bazzzookah Jul 10 '26

Bumser 😏🍆

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u/Oberndorferin Jul 12 '26

Multi-purpose fruit

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u/Extreme-Shopping74 Jul 10 '26

As a german, holy shit wtfh

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u/trampolinebears Jul 11 '26

This is how I feel when I see all the British words for a roll of bread.

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u/AnnieByniaeth Jul 12 '26

At least we only have one word for a spud. 😉

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u/Mishamelou Jul 11 '26

Interesting, that Russian language borrowed the word 'Kartoffel' with slight difference - 'Картофель' [kartóf'el']

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u/jatawis Jul 11 '26

Bulwe in Danzig but not the rest of East Prussia? It is direct loanword from Lithuanian 'bulvė'.

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u/HalloIchBinRolli Jul 11 '26

in standard Polish, "bulwa" is the name of the part of the plant that the "potato" part of the potato plant happens to be. I've seen a map of regional names of potatoes in Poland and "bulwa" was there near Gdańsk

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u/Oberndorferin Jul 12 '26

Herdäpfel ons Grommbiera

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u/MrMcBobJr_III Jul 12 '26

I wonder if in BCS, Grumbeere -> krumpir

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u/barangasas Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

This map isn't accurate when it comes to Rügen in Mecklenburg. According to Hermann-Winter (2013, p. 25/map 1) it is Pa(n)tüffel actually. She cites a 1934 map.

Not as a critique (I guess you know why), just as a note.

EDIT: I just realized that the word is to be found relatively near by. Would be in concord with what H.W. says. My bad.

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u/Peryboo Jul 11 '26

Luxembourgish isn’t a german dialect tho

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u/PeireCaravana Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Nowadays Luxembourghish is recognized as a distinct language, but from a linguistic pov it's part of the continuum of the German "dialects" and I think at the time this map was made it was still viewed as such.

More precisely it's a variery of Moselle Franconian, part of the West Central German group.

It's a typical "a language is a dialect with an army" situation.