English
fetticus
Fetticus comes from Dutch vette kost ‘fat food’.
- Dutchc. 1500–presentvette kost‘fat food’
- Englishearliest quotation 1945fetticus
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Dutchc. 1500–presentvette kost‘fat food’
- Englishearliest quotation 1945fetticus
Earliest quotation: 1945, Maurice Grenville Kains: “Earliest sown or planted — round beet, peas, forcing…”
Every English word from Dutch vette kost
Today it means
noun corn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta, a plant whose leaves are used in salads.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dutch vette kost / fetticus