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As an aside, tomatoes are golden apples (pomodoro), and oranges are Chinese apples (Apfelsin) in some languages. A lot of cultures appear to name botanicals us
by xattt 2mo ago
As an aside, tomatoes are golden apples (pomodoro), and oranges are Chinese apples (Apfelsin) in some languages.
A lot of cultures appear to name botanicals using apples or, in GP’s context, stone fruit as “reference” points.
- snthpy 2mo agoThank you for this. Knowing both those words, i could never work out the original/history of the terms.
- fsckboy 2mo ago>A lot of cultures appear to name botanicals using apples don't know if it makes the point or upends it, but the fruit in the Garden of Eden wasn't specifically an apple.
- vladgur 2mo agoWow, апельсин - apelsin(Russian) makes total sense now
- mlni 2mo agoPotatoes are called "earth apples" in french (pomme de terre) and a bunch of other european languages
- YeGoblynQueenne 2mo agoWait 'till you hear about melon - "μήλον" i.e. "apple" in Greek. Melon, watermelon, pomelo, etc. The ancient Greeks themselves started that with the "golden apples of the Hesperides" a.k.a. oranges. I guess any fruit people didn't know how to call was ... some kind of apple.
- Agentlien 2mo agoEverything is an apple, it seems. You also have earth apples (pomme de terre in French, aardappel in Dutch) for potatoes, grenade apples (pomegranate in English, granatäpple in Swedish, ...), pineapple, ...
- xattt 2mo agoIt helps that Latin has the word pomus for fruit.