Talk:alkikinger

RFV discussion: April 2020–March 2022
Very strange un-Italian spelling, very few hits. Misspelling of ? ping – Jberkel 00:56, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Or a misspelling of (seen used here, here and here)?


 * We do have, which, by the way, is a different species than the Cape gooseberry. --Lambiam 06:22, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * None of the Italian reference templates seems to contain the lemma, but a Google search seems to suggest a (somewhat marginal) use of the term. I can't really say where it comes from, though. Could be listed as a synonym of (“cape gooseberry”, the plant Physalis peruviana), even though it'd lack etymological info. — GianWiki (talk) 11:52, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The term occurs in the 1915 book Nella terra dei Negus: Pagine raccolte in Abissinia, volume 2, p. 65 (US access only), also here in GBS snippet view: “Altre fruttifere furono importate e crescono quali l’ananas, il nespolo, i cocomeri, gli alkikinger, le fragole.” The fact that it is considered a fruit suggests the cape gooseberry, not the ornamental alkekengi. The etymological origin,, is nevertheless undoubtedly the same. Perhaps – this is pure speculation – the author picked up this spelling while visiting Ethiopia. --Lambiam 11:09, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed – Jberkel 09:28, 21 March 2022 (UTC)