hopniss

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Unami hopënis (/hopənis/ (which has now shifted to meaning "potato"), compare Munsee óhpən, ohpën (“potato”)), possibly via Colonial Swedish. Compare katniss.[1][2]

Noun

hopniss

Apios americana, a perennial vine that bears edible beans and large edible tubers.
- 2014, Leda Meredith, Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles, →ISBN:
  You have to cook hopniss tubers—they are inedible and potentially toxic raw. They are great boiled, roasted, or fried.

Synonyms

potato bean, hodoimo
(ambiguously) Indian potato, American groundnut, groundnut

References

Kelly Kindscher, Edible wild plants of the prairie: an ethnobotanical guide (1987), page 49: "Peter Kalm, an economics professor and botanist from Sweden, observed the hopniss (groundnut) when in the northern colonies. He reported on March 17, 1749: 'Hopniss or hapniss was the Indian name of a wild plant [...]'"
The Lenape Talking Dictionary

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[1] Kelly Kindscher, Edible wild plants of the prairie: an ethnobotanical guide (1987), page 49: "Peter Kalm, an economics professor and botanist from Sweden, observed the hopniss (groundnut) when in the northern colonies. He reported on March 17, 1749: 'Hopniss or hapniss was the Indian name of a wild plant [...]'"

[2] The Lenape Talking Dictionary