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Replying to @gaileyfrey
The color orange was named after the fruit, not the other way around. Before the discovery of orange trees, the color was called geoluread.
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Replying to @calvin_whipple @gaileyfrey
How do you say it? I WONDERED what the old name was.
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And it still doesn't rhyme with anything!
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Replying to @GalaxyKate @calvin_whipple and
The g was pronounced like a y, tho, so it's basically just Old English for "yellow-red". Also, fun fact: the word "orange" is from Sanskrit via Arabic "naranj", which lost its initial 'n' when it was reinterpreted as part of the article "un[a]" in the Romance languages.
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not very fair to say "Romance languages" when Spanish just kept it
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Replying to @chaosprime @leftoblique and
Spanish has some weird & neato linguistic artifacts from the Arab occupation.
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