Beerenkunde

[muckefuck]

Apfelbeeren chokeberries
Blaubeeren blueberries
Boysenbeeren boysenberries
Brombeeren blackberries
Elsbeeren serviceberry
Erdbeeren strawberries
Heidelbeeren bilberries
Himbeeren raspberries
Holunderbeeren elderberries
Rote/Schwarze Johannisbeeren red/blackcurrants
Kapstachelbeeren[*] groundcherry
Kermesbeeren pokeberries
Klabusterbeeren dingleberries
Krähenbeeren crowberries
Kranbeeren = Moosbeeren
Kratzbeeren dewberries
Kronsbeeren = Preiselbeeren
Maulbeeren mulberries
Moltebeeren cloudberries
Moosbeeren cranberries
Prachthimbeeren salmonberry
Preiselbeeren lingonberry
Scheinbeeren wintergreen berries
Stachelbeeren gooseberry
Stechpalmenbeeren holly berries
Wachholderbeeren juniper berries

[*] also called Judenkirschen "Jew cherries".

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

IMD, the first element of gooseberry is pronounced exactly like goose.

What about the second element of berry names? Do you also reduce it and/or stress the final syllable, or is it pretty close to the word "berry" in isolation?

"Flieder" to me is lilac. It sounds very strange to talk of eating "Fliederbeeren".

The thing that got me was reading an English translation of something with "Linden(bäume)" in German and seeing "lime trees".

I had to look that one up before I believed that "lime" applies not only to citrus fruits but also to Tilia.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

That usage of "lime" confused me for a long time. Sources I read when I was younger talked about "lime trees" being a major component in the forests of Northern Europe, and that just seemed to so very counterintuitive. (It's an odd development--lind > line > lime--linden is a recent loan from German.) Many of the lindens around here are actually "basswoods" (T. americana).

"Berry" isn't reduced for us; it has a full vowel and secondary stress. The only reduction I can think of in any of these words is /'rasp/ > /'raz/ in raspberry.