>In Italian it was originally narancia, and in French narange, though the word in both of these languages eventually dropped the “n” at the beginning to become

>In Italian it was originally narancia, and in French narange, though the word in both of these languages eventually dropped the “n” at the beginning to become arancia and orange, probably from a mistaken idea that the initial “n” sound had carried over from the article, una or une. This actually happened pretty often with some words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing#Examples_of_false_splitting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing#Examples_of_false...