stensöta
Old Swedish
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[edit]- Swedish: stensöta
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of sten (“stone”) + söta (“sweetness”). Inherited from Old Swedish stensöta. Ultimately named for the sweet taste of their edible roots. First attested in the mid-to-late 1400s[1].
Noun
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- Polypodium vulgare; common polypody, a type of fern native to western Europe and northern Africa; known for its edible root, which has a sweet, liquorice-like taste.
- 1767 April 4, “LÄKAREN. Om Catharr, hoſta, ſnufwa, &c. [THE PHYSICIAN. On Catarrh, Cough, and Sneezing, &c.]”, in Stockholms Weckoblad, page 2:
- Aͤfwen de drickerna af Stenſoͤta och Alche rot, af quitten-ſlem och gelee aͤro tjenlige medel; Allenaſt boͤr man hålla det daͤrwid.
- Likewiſe, Drinks made from the Roots of Polypody and Alkanet, from Quince mucilage and jelly, are ſuitable Remedies; only one muſt adhere to theſe alone.
- 1954, Linnar Linnarsson, Edsveden, page 158:
- Där stenar och block låg i skuggan, såsom i sänkor och backsluttningar, var de mossbelupna, och i springorna växte stensöta, vars besksöta rotstock vallpojkarna lät sig väl smaka.
- Where stones and boulders lay in the shade, such as in hollows and slopes, they were covered in moss, and in the crevices grew polypody, whose bitter-sweet rhizome the shepherd boys enjoyed.
- 2012 November 14, Linda Nohrstedt, “Vertikala växter isolerar och dämpar buller [Vertical plants insulate and dampen noise.]”, in Ny Teknik:
- Stensöta har börjat sticka ut ur Whites prototyper. Men riktigt gröna kommer fasadbitarna inte att bli förrän till våren.
- Polypody has begun to stand out from White's prototypes. But the façade pieces will not become truly green until spring.
- Synonym of sminkrot (“Lithospermum arvense; bastard alkanet”)