Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
by kristiandupont on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:29AM
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The Danish word for orange is "appelsin". Which lead to a funny question from an Irish visitor at the breakfast table once asking me if there "are apples in this juice?", looking at the carton saying "appelsinjuice".
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Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
by mcv on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:00AM
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In Dutch, appelsien is archaic, sinaasappel is the modern name. Though the word for juice, sinaasappelsap, is increasingly being replaced with the French jus d'orange.
Despite Dutch not using a variation of "orange" for the fruit, we do use "oranje" for the colour, which, due to the name of our royal house, has also become the national colour.
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
by 4gotunameagain on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:13AM
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I always found it funny how in many languages "potato" is the apple of the earth.
[fr] pomme de terre
[nl] aardappel
[gr] γεώμηλο (γη + μήλο, almost never used though)
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
by s_dev on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:34AM
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Apple used to refer to all "fruit" other than berries in middle English.
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
by Xylakant on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:46AM
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[de] Erdapfel (mostly in southern germany, Austria and switzerland, Kartoffel would be common)
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
by account42 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:07AM
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That's a weird way to write "Grumbeere" [0]
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
by Xylakant on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:31PM
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I was about to post that, too, but that's "soil pear" and not apple :)
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
by user-the-name on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:00AM
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The etymology for that is "apple of China".
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
by galangalalgol on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:39AM
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The "prince of orange" predates the arrival of oranges by centuries, is that just a modern translation to english of a french title that used some other word?
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
by thelightthat on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:02AM
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From the article:
"There are lots of references to the House of Orange, which still today is officially part of the name of the royal family of the Netherlands (Orange-Nassau); but this use of “Orange” comes neither from the color nor the fruit. It takes its name from a region in southeastern France still known as “Orange.”"