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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Of those languages which call oranges oranges, a guest consonant often makes a cameo appearance at the start: N in Spanish (naranja), L in Portuguese (laranja) and T in Catalan (taronja), while Italian (arancia) does without.
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Replying to @propensive
Huh... Czechs call them pomeranč and when I think about, that's looks like some kind of a mashup between pomme and arrancia
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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
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Also found a nice map
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