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Originally Posted by EastSideHBG
Cool pics!
I know this one! It's Italian and symbolizes welcome and abundance. For a long time people thought that it was a pineapple vs a pine cone.  |
Ah, interesting! And I had assumed it was a pineapple too!
You know, I never thought that a pine cone kind of resembles a pineapple, and it makes me wonder about the etymology of the word, because apparently in Italian, a "pigna" means "pine cone"; the Spanish word "piña," pronunced exactly the same way, means "pineapple," so I would have thought they meant the same thing. And then of course Spanish also has the word "anana" for pineapple as well.