Etymograph

English

loganberry

From Logan + berry, named for the American lawyer and horticulturist James Harvey Logan (1841-1928).

A compound of Logan + berry

Scottish Gaelic lag ‘little hollow’

English Logan

Proto-Germanic *bazją

Proto-West Germanic *baʀi

Old English berġe

Middle English berie ‘a berry’

English berry

Today it means

noun A hybrid berry, produced by crossing a raspberry with a blackberry, considered a species Rubus loganobaccus, a variety Rubus ursinus var. loganobaccus, or a nothospecies Rubus × loganobaccus.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / loganberry