Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1620s
Sauerkraut
from Sauerkraut
- Meaning
- Sour cabbage — fermented shredded white cabbage.
- Source word
- Sauerkraut
- Route into English
- German farming preservation → American kitchen via 19th-c. immigration; renamed "liberty cabbage" in WWI.
- Arrived
- 1620s
English borrows.
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