The world's languages can be grouped into those which call oranges oranges, those which call oranges apples and those which call oranges Portugals.
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Huh... Czechs call them pomeranč and when I think about, that's looks like some kind of a mashup between pomme and arrancia
Yes, and Polish is the same. I couldn't find the etymology for these, but I might guess it's from the French which was historically "pomme d'orenge".
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Yeah, I digged around and apparently it was adopted into old Czech in medieval times
so French makes sense (I thought German would be an intermediary). -
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