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Germany chiming in ... We have something that is called "Rote Beete" (eng: beet root) which sounds similar to "rotabagge" (eng: rutabaga), but apparently is a d

• yesbabyyes 5y ago
  It sounds alike but is different. The vegetable has the same name in Swedish, rödbeta (literally red beet, which makes sense since it's deeply red). Rotabagge is something like "root bug", but where the bagge/bug part is more like an old/dialectal word for "lump", I think. Edit: "bagge" is likely to have the same root (no pun intended) as bag. After looking up a few of these different roots on wiktionary, it could be that the have common roots but have just been mashes up through the millenia. The etymology seems unclear,and they have similar enough gibberish names in lots of different languages (beterraba, beterraga, etc).