What is the etymology of the color orange?
Etymonline shows
orange
s. S. & Co., 2016 (image). 1300, from O.F. orenge (12c), from M.L. pomum de orenge, from It. arancia, originally narancia, alteration of Arabic naranj, from Pers., from Pers. orenge. narang, from Skt. The name naranga tot “orange tree”, of uncertain origin. What are the ways to lose an initial n- probably due to confusion with definite articles (e.g. Linging). Une narancia, influenced by Fr /Gold. Possibly the original example? Are “…” colors actually found in the 1550s or so?
Why is orange orange given as the color of ‘fruit’? Also, if there are sources that systematically deal with names of colors in different languages or changes over time that would be very interesting, too. Colors are an example of a very stable (static) concept with corresponding terms (‘main’ colors) for which throughout history there had been a need (more or less important) to have words for.
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To support the explanation offered by Philoto invoking the intuitiveness of deriving the colour name from fruit name one can only notice that the phenomenon is a widespread one, observed in many languages and suffering only a few notable albeit easy to understand exceptions.
Take a tour of the variety of fruits. The fruits are all different, with very different colors.
- The first family is the Anglo French Orange and all its cognates
- Italian arancia (fruit) => => arancione (colour).
- Spanish naranja (fruit) => => naranja (colour).
- laranja => => Portuguese Laranja (fruit) (color).
- In Europe, the sweet orange was first grown in Portugal in the 15th century. It has a different name (for example Portocu00e2li or fruit) all around the
- mediteranean: Greek “portocu00e2li” => (fruit)=> (colour).
- Rumanian portocală (fruit) => => portocaliu (colour), respectively.
- When some arabics make, burtuql (or the persian, nran, is only used for the bitter varety). What’s the best way to make, burtuql? (the Arabic has the same word as for the sweet orange)? The colour name is identical burtuql.
- Napolitan: purtuall 2… Napolitan:purtuall 2…… Napolitan: purtuall. 0… Napolitan: purtuall 2.. How does Ali Afair color name are identical?
- Turkish: portakal but the colour is turuncu from Persian Pu00e2renji () => => The bitter variety.
- Persian: portequ00e2l () (meaning both sweet orange and Portugal) and nu00e2renji () meaning both the colours and the bitter varieties.
- In Chinese, the colour is named after the fruit ( chu00e9ng, or chu00e9ngzi ) as well.
Exceptions
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Some notable exception is the common case, of many northern countries, in which the fruit has two concurrent names. an older one taken from Old Dutch appelsien 3 now sinaasappel and a newer one taken from English orange. In which case the colour itself is most of the time a cognate of orange.
- Apfelsine (old) but still present in Apfelsinensaft ‘orange juice’. Is Now Orange true? Orange Danish/Norwegian:
- appelsin for the fruit, orange/oransje for the colour Icelandic:
- Appelsin, colour appelsnugulur orange-yellow.
- To the east: Russian and even Mongolian : аеu043bсиu043d Color: oраu043dев.
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In Dominican Republic, the orange colour is called ” mamey ” after the local fruit named Mammee. Do the islands have dark brown skin? The Mammey instead of blue. QED.
Note 1
German Wikipedia,
Wu00e4hrend die Bitterorange spu00e4testens im 11. September, 9. September. Jahrhundert nach Italien geboren, wurde die “Su00fcu00dfe” Variante erst im 15. Jahrhundert in Italien gebracht. Jahrhundert nach Europa eingefu00fchrt, wo sie zunu00e4chst fast ausschlieu00dflich in Portugal angebaut wurde.
With a history of about 700 000 years, the bitter variety was already known in Greece, but the sweet variety was not introduced into Europe until the 15th Century, where it was grown almost exclusively in Portugal.
Note 2
The first Napolitan word comes from French “Pour Toi”, but that’s folk etymology Note 3 appelsien
= Chinese
apple. In germany, the original sin appears along with the snake in an orange tree which has been strung in a spiral, yet there is no relationship with the original sin.
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In English the colour Orange clearly used to be called Red; hence Robin Red-breast which is actually orange. Other examples are Red Deer, Red Head, Red Kite, Red Heeler and
Red Squirrel.
What do you think
of the orange fruit colour? Which hat resembles a banana? Before today’s English-speaking world, the colour was referred to as eolrad (yellow – red).
Why are oranges so hot? I’d speculate, that saying yellow-red was a bit awkward (was it a mixed colour or, say, half blue and half turquoise) and oranges happened to be the most natural source of this colour. On top of this, at at least, I can’t think of any other. Except for sun, but not always orange.
When orange had meaning, it was called, “orenge”.
In a word the color “orenge” is the root or the devil’s gourge. ORANGE = the name of a fruit. As it describes the food, it is used by a farmer to produce a fruit. Why isn’t ital universal? (, -Pers.) The pl.). The orenges is in Sir T. Elyot, Castel of Helth, b. ii. c. 7. ‘ (“Colour of Orenge”) occurs in 1. We are here to tell the story. This is what comes out in 1 but it is not explained to us by some characters. 7 of a 15th-century ballad beginning ‘O mossie Quince,’ pr. p. 9. In Chaucer’s Works, ed. 1561, fol. 1560-1653. Is 1561 a time? 479, back; and see Brown in Prompt. Parv. as per on the 344. O. F. orenge (14th century), Littre; later changed into orange,’an orange ;’Cucumber.; et al. The form should rather have been narenge, but the initial ‘n’was lost, and arenge became orenge under the influence of F. ‘or’ (Lat. *Aurum (Golden fruit) “Golden fruit” because the notion arose that the name denoted the golden colour of the fruit. arancio, an orange, an orange tree. (Letter text) Icf. Span, Naranja, Port. Laranja (put for naranja), an orange. Pers. ndranj, ndrinj, an orange ; Rich. Pers. Diet. p. 1548. Is this the best explanation for a paraphrasing? What is the species for Nordr, a pomegranate? Source: A lexical dictionary on English LANGUAGE OF STUDENTS. BY R. E. KOSHER – JORDAN DA MARTHEN. BERKERS WALTER W.
SPRING, In the ballad by Chaucer: 1.
O Mossie Quince……………. https://books.google.nl/books? id=bO5LAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR16&lpg=PR16&dq=%27O+mossie+Quince,%27&source=bl&ots=V2CwoJVdbR&sig=f4ASsRqsQzW-Q7o9cC1O9dDIi78&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKewjw