Noun: pomme de terre
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | pomme de terre |
| Plural f | pommes de terre |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like pomme de terre
pomme de Goa,
pomme de discorde,
pomme de terre,
pomme de cajou,
pomme d'Adam,
pomme d'amour,
pomme de pin,
pomme de pré,
pomme de senteur,
pomme de terre en robe des champs,
Etymology
Literally, “apple of [the] earth”. The word pomme used to mean "fruit" in Old French. The French construction originated, as calques, Dutch aardappel, Icelandic jarðepli, Persian سیبزمینی (sib-zamini), Modern Hebrew תפוח אדמה (tapúakh adamá), the rare English earthapple, German Erdapfel, etc. See: Dutch Nouns '
aardappel', Icelandic Nouns '
jarðepli', English Nouns '
earthapple', German Nouns '
Erdapfel'.
Verbs referencing "pomme de terre"
German Nouns
Erdapfel, Polish Nouns
ziemniak, Icelandic Nouns
jarðepli, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
jordeple.
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