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The Danish word for orange is "appelsin". Which lead to a funny question from an Irish visitor at the breakfast table once asking me if there "are apples in thi

The Danish word for orange is "appelsin". Which lead to a funny question from an Irish visitor at the breakfast table once asking me if there "are apples in this juice?", looking at the carton saying "appelsinjuice".

galangalalgol 6y ago
The "prince of orange" predates the arrival of oranges by centuries, is that just a modern translation to english of a french title that used some other word?
- thelightthat 6y ago
  From the article: "There are lots of references to the House of Orange, which still today is officially part of the name of the royal family of the Netherlands (Orange-Nassau); but this use of “Orange” comes neither from the color nor the fruit. It takes its name from a region in southeastern France still known as “Orange.”"
user-the-name 6y ago
The etymology for that is "apple of China".
4gotunameagain 6y ago
I always found it funny how in many languages "potato" is the apple of the earth. [fr] pomme de terre [nl] aardappel [gr] γεώμηλο (γη + μήλο, almost never used though)
- s_dev 6y ago
  Apple used to refer to all "fruit" other than berries in middle English.
- Xylakant 6y ago
  [de] Erdapfel (mostly in southern germany, Austria and switzerland, Kartoffel would be common)
  - account42 6y ago
    That's a weird way to write "Grumbeere" [0] [0] https://pfl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartoffel https://pfl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartoffel
    - Xylakant 6y ago
      I was about to post that, too, but that's "soil pear" and not apple :)
mcv 6y ago
In Dutch, appelsien is archaic, sinaasappel is the modern name. Though the word for juice, sinaasappelsap, is increasingly being replaced with the French jus d'orange. Despite Dutch not using a variation of "orange" for the fruit, we do use "oranje" for the colour, which, due to the name of our royal house, has also become the national colour.

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The Danish word for orange is "appelsin". Which lead to a funny question from an Irish visitor at the breakfast table once asking me if there "are apples in thi

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galangalalgol 6y ago
The "prince of orange" predates the arrival of oranges by centuries, is that just a modern translation to english of a french title that used some other word?
- thelightthat 6y ago
  From the article: "There are lots of references to the House of Orange, which still today is officially part of the name of the royal family of the Netherlands (Orange-Nassau); but this use of “Orange” comes neither from the color nor the fruit. It takes its name from a region in southeastern France still known as “Orange.”"
user-the-name 6y ago
The etymology for that is "apple of China".
4gotunameagain 6y ago
I always found it funny how in many languages "potato" is the apple of the earth. [fr] pomme de terre [nl] aardappel [gr] γεώμηλο (γη + μήλο, almost never used though)
- s_dev 6y ago
  Apple used to refer to all "fruit" other than berries in middle English.
- Xylakant 6y ago
  [de] Erdapfel (mostly in southern germany, Austria and switzerland, Kartoffel would be common)
  - account42 6y ago
    That's a weird way to write "Grumbeere" [0] [0] https://pfl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartoffel https://pfl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartoffel
    - Xylakant 6y ago
      I was about to post that, too, but that's "soil pear" and not apple :)
mcv 6y ago
In Dutch, appelsien is archaic, sinaasappel is the modern name. Though the word for juice, sinaasappelsap, is increasingly being replaced with the French jus d'orange. Despite Dutch not using a variation of "orange" for the fruit, we do use "oranje" for the colour, which, due to the name of our royal house, has also become the national colour.