The article cites Old English: "ciris" as in "cirisbeam" (the ciris tree) and claims the error from the "Old North French" variant "cherise" but the word is muc

The article cites Old English: "ciris" as in "cirisbeam" (the ciris tree) and claims the error from the "Old North French" variant "cherise" but the word is much older. E.g. Latin, 1 century AD: Cerasus (AFAIK C is pronounced ch as in chain, Edit: thanks to danans for the correction: ch is a modern and k as in king the traditional pronunciation, so it's even closer to the Greek one) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cerasus https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cerasus And even older, ancient Greek: (pronounced probably like kera-sos): "κερασός Of Anatolian origin. Compare Akkadian "karšu"" Of course, Akkadian is the oldest Semitic language for which the records exist, at least 4000 years old, i.e. around 2000 BC. Their empire was in the part of today's Iraq -- in the area to which the people who later wrote the Torah (which even later became the part of the Old Testament) referred as "the garden of Eden." The cherries are our direct connection to the mythical paradise. (And, when I'm by Eden and fruits, the famous "forbidden fruit" wasn't an apple in the original text, that's a wrong, later, interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_fruit#The_Apple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_fruit#The_Apple )