Tournesol.
Sunflower. I was baking and the recipe called for Sunflower oil. But if you break down the word to "Tourne" and "Sol" it means "turned soil". I don't know why, but the fact that we named it after the Sun and they named it after the Earth is interesting to me,
are you sure it doesn't mean "turns to the sun"? In Spanish sunflower is Girasol, becasue the flower turns (think latin root of gyrate) towards the sun.
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I'm sure that is what it means, but the word Sol in french means earth or soil.
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