Talk:strawberry

The article has this sentence She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen. but what does patch means? The article about patch does not help me. Lennart.larsen 10:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

A small area, a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn. SemperBlotto 10:58, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

The etymology part currently only tells the word comes from Old English. But it (and its wikipedia article) fails to tell why it is strawberry. There is no sensible connection with the berry/fruit and straw. Though the swedish name, "jordgubbe", is even more strange, translating to "old man of earth". 82.141.126.42 03:42, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

I fixed it a little, maybe. I actually am not sure the Wiktionary etymology is correct but it makes sense. "straw" 1000 years ago was a form of a verb, meaning "strewn" so it could refer to your bed or your favorite food. Soap (talk) 06:01, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

The etymology given doesn't make any sense to me. Strawberries don't grow on bushes.Acasson (talk) 13:44, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

@Acasson, that’s a good point. If anything, they are “strewn” on the ground unlike other berries that are tidily “shelved” in bushes. But Etymonline mentions a different theory: that the seeds of a strawberry resemble chaff (thus the morpheme points to the familiar noun rather than a participle). I will raise this issue at the etymology scriptorium. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 14:06, 16 April 2021 (UTC)