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Hi
I'm sure there's nothing more about that fairy tale anyone CAN know!! Very interesting!

Here's something more about the origin and meaning of Rapunzel:

In my dictionary I found the English translation "lamb's-lettuce", but in some southern German dialects it is used for almost any kind of sallad ;).

The word was first used in Germany the 16th century, and it derives from Middle Latin "rapuncium" from Latin "radice puntium": 'radix' meaning "root" + 'phu' (acc. 'phun') meaning "kind of valerian".

Some dialectal variants of that word are:

Rapunze
Rapünzchen
Rapünzlein

The German pronunciation is rah-POON-tsel (short oo like in 'book').

Regards, Satu

• rapunzel - mike crowe  Aug 18 2003, 9:00:44 PM
  • Re: rapunzel - beca  Feb 24 2004, 10:18:01 AM
  • More than you ever wanted to know about Rapunzel - Miranda  Aug 18 2003, 10:51:56 PM
    • Interesting Genre of the story - Jinny  Nov 14 2003, 5:14:00 PM
    • Re: More than you ever wanted to know about Rapunzel - anne  Nov 14 2003, 12:46:01 AM
    • Wow! Impressing!! (more) - Satu  Aug 26 2003, 2:11:16 PM
    • Oops, correction - Miranda  Aug 22 2003, 5:34:04 AM
      • Oops again: Giambattista Basile was a man! nt - Miranda  Aug 22 2003, 5:36:46 AM
    • Most interesting! :-) n/t - Shay  Aug 20 2003, 3:19:46 PM