Lemon in European Languages

Lemon in European Languages

“The map is astoundingly accurate, since it covers the exceedingly rare Limauni in Bavarian. The word itself travelled to Bavaria from Italy during the middle ages.

The last person I actually heard using it was my grandmother, who belonged to a generation which used to call strawberries “ananas”. After she died, I decided to say Limauni myself. Just because, and … well, old words deserve to be saved, don’t they”–ColourFox