köken: Stachel + Beere (“berry”). The term has been attested since at least the late 16th century; the 1607 dictionary Dictionnaire François-Allemand & Allemand-François contains the variant forms "Stachelbeer" and "Stichelbeer".
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros Proto-Italic *agros Latin ager Latin terrestris Latin -estris Latin agrestisder. Italian agreste Italian agrestobor. Old Czech agrestbor. Old Polish agrest Polish agrest Inherited from Old Polish agrest (“verjuice”).
köken: Inherited from Old Czech agrest, from Italian agresto (“juice of sour grapes, verjuice”), from Latin agrestis (“rustic, wild”), from ager (“field, farm”).
köken: From agriș + -ă, from Hungarian egres, itself from German agras, from Old French aigras, from Vulgar Latin *acrus, from acer. May have been contaminated with a Latin agrestis. Compare Italian agresto, Spanish agraz.
köken: From a Slavic language (compare with Serbo-Croatian ogrozd, Slovak egreš, Czech angrešt), from Italian agresto (“juice of sour grapes, verjuice”) (or directly) from Latin agrestis (“rustic, wild”), from ager (“field, farm”).