Dibble-
Fucking delicious.
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Slugberries.
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Avoidaberries
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What were strawberries called before we started growing them above straw?
The straw in strawberry probably has no relation to the straw used as plant bedding, aside from being cognate. If you're common (your language is dominated by words with Germanic roots), they have always been strawberries, wild ones being strewn across the floor of the woodland
The hybrid created for commercial production was developed in France, so they probably came to posh (language contains a higher proportion of words with French roots) tables in England as fraises, a word which is cognate with fragrant and fragaria, the genus which includes the strawberries.
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What were strawberries called before we started growing them above straw?
Earthberries - like they still are, in German.
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Electricity (synthetic, from assembled voltaic piles or dynamos etc.) is named after natural electricity, from amber which holds static charge, which is called electrum in Latin from the Greek ἤλεκτρον
The first Europeans to encounter the electric eel would probably have been Portugese, in which language it is called Poraquê. That seems to be taken from the names given to it by the indigenous peoples where it is found, e.g. Pyrake in Kariña, Purake in Kokama, Puraké in Nheengatu and others.