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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In Hebrew, the words for Apple and Orange are similar: Apple is "תפוח" ( "ta-pu-ach") and orange is "תפוז" ("ta-pu-z") i.e, they differ in the last letter. Yiddish, it would be (orange) מאַראַנץ ("marants") and (apple) עפּל ("effl") I don't really know any other language.
It could be that "marants" is in the "arancia" category, which would be nice because it's yet another different random consonant in front of the common root. I have no knowledge of Yiddish, so I don't know how likely this is.
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No knowledge of Yiddish and you're from Poland? Everyone from the Polish side (mother's father) of my family spoke nothing but Yiddish....
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I only live in Poland... I'm not from here, per se. And maybe I can spot the few Yiddish words English has adopted, but I wouldn't be able to identify them in Polish, even though there are likely more of them.
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