"The colour!! Natural state oranges are green and have a chemical sprayed on them to remove the chlorophyll.
Nonsense.. "
And selective breeding. Selective breeding also gave us orange carrots and water melons with a lot more edible flesh. |
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"I think I read somewhere that the Spanish word "naranja" became "an orange" in English and the colour followed "
I like that explanation..
But I did read somewhere that they had no name for the colour apart from the fruit..not important to me but if you are William from Oranga
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The orange fruit came before the word orange.
The fruit's name comes from a foreign name for the fruit (can't remember the language sorry), where they had a totally different word for the colour.
Before the fruit became popular in England, we didn't have a name for the colour. |
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Came up as one of my lad’s random questions, so a little bit of Googling later and it was the fruit. The colour orange wasn’t used in English text until about 200 years later, although could have been in other languages prior to that |
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"The orange fruit came before the word orange.
The fruit's name comes from a foreign name for the fruit (can't remember the language sorry), where they had a totally different word for the colour.
Before the fruit became popular in England, we didn't have a name for the colour."
The word orange comes from French. The French called it "pomme d'orenge" which then became shortened to orange in sixteenth century UK. |
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Before the English speaking world was introduced to the fruit the colour was called geoluread (yellowred) ... then it changed through different languages like french or spanish until the english decided to mash all 3 words together to make orange. .. so it was the fruit first
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"The orange fruit came before the word orange.
The fruit's name comes from a foreign name for the fruit (can't remember the language sorry), where they had a totally different word for the colour.
Before the fruit became popular in England, we didn't have a name for the colour.
The word orange comes from French. The French called it "pomme d'orenge" which then became shortened to orange in sixteenth century UK."
Yeah, but the French word for the colour is also orangé, so that just shifts the question to French.
Prior to the French terms, it came from somewhere else. Sanskrit I think. |
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"The orange fruit came before the word orange.
The fruit's name comes from a foreign name for the fruit (can't remember the language sorry), where they had a totally different word for the colour.
Before the fruit became popular in England, we didn't have a name for the colour.
The word orange comes from French. The French called it "pomme d'orenge" which then became shortened to orange in sixteenth century UK.
Yeah, but the French word for the colour is also orangé, so that just shifts the question to French.
Prior to the French terms, it came from somewhere else. Sanskrit I think."
Etymology of naranja (Spanish):
Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (naranj), from Persian ?????? (nârang), from Sanskrit ?????? (nara?ga, “orange tree”). Compare Portuguese laranja and Catalan taronja. |
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"The orange fruit came before the word orange.
The fruit's name comes from a foreign name for the fruit (can't remember the language sorry), where they had a totally different word for the colour.
Before the fruit became popular in England, we didn't have a name for the colour.
The word orange comes from French. The French called it "pomme d'orenge" which then became shortened to orange in sixteenth century UK.
Yeah, but the French word for the colour is also orangé, so that just shifts the question to French.
Prior to the French terms, it came from somewhere else. Sanskrit I think.
Etymology of naranja (Spanish):
Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (naranj), from Persian ?????? (nârang), from Sanskrit ?????? (nara?ga, “orange tree”). Compare Portuguese laranja and Catalan taronja."
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