different between rutabaga vs neep

English

Alternative forms

• ruta-baga

Etymology

1799, borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) +? bagge (“lump, bunch”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??ut??be???/

Noun

rutabaga (usually uncountable, plural rutabagas)

1. (now Canada, US) the swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica
2. (now Canada, US) the edible root of this plant
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Sometimes your royal dogs tear down our thatch,
     And then we seek the shelter of a ditch;
     Hog-wash or grains, or ruta-baga, none
     Has yet been ours since your reign begun.

Synonyms

• swede, Swedish turnip

Translations

References

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.ta.ba.?a/

Noun

rutabaga m (plural rutabagas)

1. swede, rutabaga (yellow root of Brassica napus)

Further reading

• “rutabaga” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

rutabaga f (plural rutabagas)

1. rutabaga (Brassica napus, a plant with an edible root)

   Synonyms: colza, nabo da Suécia, couve-nabiça, couve-nabo

English

Etymology

From Middle English nepe, from Old English n?p (“turnip, rape”), borrowed from Latin n?pus. Compare Icelandic næpa (“turnip”).

Cognate with English turnip.

Noun

neep (plural neeps)

1. (chiefly Scotland) The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 494:

     Poor Mr Piddle with his long think neck and his long thin head, as bald as a neep and something the shape […]

Translations

Anagrams

• peen, pene, pene-

Middle English

Noun

neep

1. Alternative form of nepe