In Polish, the word for lemon is cytryna, but the word for citron is cytron
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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Okay, but what happened in languages where lemons are called “citron”?
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The answer seems to be that they mainly call a citron “cedrat”.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I looked it up and German has several translations, among them Zedrate, as you suggested, but also Judenapfel (Jew apple) for no obvious reason (according to dict.cc)
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Luckily that isn’t the name of the Wikipedia entry