Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)

Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018) by 4gotunameagain on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:13AM (#25858078)

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)

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Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018) by s_dev on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:34AM (#25858197)

Apple used to refer to all "fruit" other than berries in middle English.

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Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018) by Xylakant on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:46AM (#25858696)

[de] Erdapfel (mostly in southern germany, Austria and switzerland, Kartoffel would be common)

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Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018) by account42 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:07AM (#25859550)

That's a weird way to write "Grumbeere" [0]

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Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018) by Xylakant on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:31PM (#25861499)

I was about to post that, too, but that's "soil pear" and not apple :)

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