I just had a moment where I was like "I wonder what the ancient Greek word for pumpkin is" and then I facepalmed REALLY HARD
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep
Yeah at this point I just don’t remember which vegetables they had and didn’t. Grains I know, but vegetables are hard.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Oh dear now I'm searching vegetables over on Perseus! They had carrots and peas and apples and pears.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep @AdmiralHip
No eggplant/aubergine - is that new world? I never remember.
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Thanks for the info! I checked, it’s from India originally, possibly.
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Replying to @honigmaydl @NeolithicSheep
England gets it circa 1650 I guess.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @honigmaydl
Yeah whenever it wound up in Greece it was way after the dictionaries Perseus covers!
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