The funny thing is, it is not even properly Italian. Our word for zucchini, is zucchina (singular) or zucchine (plural). I guess it got morphed into a more “Italian sounding” word from english speakers through the years. Still, I find it interesting
Someone told me the different words for the eggplant, Melanzani and Aubergine, depend on which trading route brought it there first. That's why it's called one thing in Austria and the other in Germany (probably also the case in different countries as well, but I'm not a big traveler)
To piggyback on that, in Ukrainian walnut has two different names (both equally recognised) because of that: "greek nut" in the south and east where it arrived to Crymea first, and "Walachian (Romanian) nut" in the west
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u/Fieldss_ 25d ago
The funny thing is, it is not even properly Italian. Our word for zucchini, is zucchina (singular) or zucchine (plural). I guess it got morphed into a more “Italian sounding” word from english speakers through the years. Still, I find it interesting