What are chips and chrisps called in your country? Help this pathetically small database become one of the most awesome and respected on the web. Email your country's name for crisps/chips to myself Professor Pyeter More of the Centre for Tables Posing as Scholarly Works in Cultural Lingustics, Neesden. Please note, brand names are not included here unless they have become generic terms for crisps or chips.
| Word | Country | Etymology | Notes/sources |
| Chips | NL, DE | Latin: cippus | |
| (Potato) Chips | US | Spanish: patata; Latin: cippus | |
| (Pommes) Chips | FR | Latin: cippus | |
| (Potato) Crisps | UK | Latin: crispus | |
| Patatine Fritte | IT | ||
| Patatas Fritas (a la Inglesa), Chips | SP | ||
| Batatas Fritas (de pacote) | Port | ||
The definition of a crisp for the purpose of this table is that of the British English definition of "a fried thin slice of potato, usually eaten cold from a packet." *
| Word | Country | Etymology | Notes/sources |
| (Potato) Chips | UK | Latin: cippus | |
| (French) Fries | US | Probably trying to imitate French: frites | |
| (Pommes) Frites | FR | Latin: frigere | |
| (Patates) Frites, Patats, Patatjes, Frieten | NL | Spanish: patata; French: frites | |
| Pommes (Frites) | DE | French | |
| Patatina Fritta | IT | ||
| Patatas Fritas | SP | ||
| Batatas Fritas (em palitos) | Port | ||
The definition of a chip for the purpose of this table is that of the British English definition of "a (usually oblong) piece of potato fried or for frying." *
* - Taken from New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
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