Talk:pølse
Add topicLatest comment: 7 years ago by Gamren
Can anyone give an insight to the etymology? Fnidner 00:17, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- I was thinking the same thing... — 79.113.247.58 18:33, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
- Not really, except it's obviously cognate to Icelandic pylsa, Faroese pylsa, and apparently it existed in the same form in Old Danish (“pølse” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog).__Gamren (talk) 16:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
- Could it be related to the Dutch 'peulen' (bean pods)? Which is supposed to be related to English peeling and pulling.
- Not really, except it's obviously cognate to Icelandic pylsa, Faroese pylsa, and apparently it existed in the same form in Old Danish (“pølse” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog).__Gamren (talk) 16:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)