It seems suspect to me, the sort of cod-etymology that gets propagated for decades once it gets into print by being uncritically cited wholesale and re-incorporated into a new work. Yes, porrum-->porro (modern Italian); but porrata (modern Italian) is a kind of leek quiche, and porridge has less to do with leeks and more to do with grain.
Leeks seem to have been carried northwards by the Romans and/or the French, but were already well-known; in Swedish they're purjolök, combining both words, the p-r form from Romance languages and the l-k or l-g forms from Germanic/Nordic.
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Re: bh--b--f
Date: 2006-01-21 01:29 am (UTC)Leeks seem to have been carried northwards by the Romans and/or the French, but were already well-known; in Swedish they're purjolök, combining both words, the p-r form from Romance languages and the l-k or l-g forms from Germanic/Nordic.