Interesting, History, Daily Facts, Random FactsCuriousOneSeptember 24, 2018Comment

The color orange is named after the fruit, and before the fruit was introduced to England, the color was called yellow-red.

Interesting, History, Daily Facts, Random FactsCuriousOneSeptember 24, 2018Comment

According to Mental Floss, the fruit’s name goes back all the way to the Sanskrit nāranga, meaning “orange tree.” This then became the Persian nārang, the Arabic nāranj, and eventually old French orenge. It finally made its way to the English orange in the 1300s, referring explicitly to the fruit.

As for the color? That didn’t appear until the early 1500s. In fact, it was probably the wider availability of the fruit that inspired people to come up with a name for the color, in a similar vein to the color peach. Before people started calling orange things orange, most linguists believe that they simply called them “yellow-red,” or ġeolurēad in Old English. Aren't food name origins fascinating?

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The color orange is named after the fruit, and before the fruit was introduced to England, the color was called yellow-red.