1823: cranberry Dec 12, 2019

Several berries have names which, while clearly containing the '-berry' combining form, cannot be parsed. 'Cran' from 'cranberry' or 'rasp' [unrelated to breath] from ‘raspberry’ are not words on their own. However, this wasn't always the case for 'cran', sort of. The word originally comes from Low German 'Kraanbeere' where '-beere' is just 'berry', but 'Kraan' means, and is a cognate with 'crane', like the bird, though no one is totally sure why. Before this, in England they were called 'marshwort' or 'fenberries'.

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