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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Okay, but what happened in languages where lemons are called "citron"?

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The answer seems to be that they mainly call a citron "cedrat".

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 7 points 2 months ago

Luckily that isn't the name of the Wikipedia entry

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

In Polish, the word for lemon is cytryna, but the word for citron is cytron