【趣谈英语】先有橙色单词还是先有橙子的单词？-The Colour Orange Was Named After The Fruit

You often hear the question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”. Have you ever wondered about colour words? According to etymologists, the colour orange was named after the citrus fruit. It evolved from the Spanish word “naranja” meaning orange tree. The Spanish word came from a Sanskrit word. In the 16th century, when the fruit became widely available in Europe, the English dropped the “n” and began using the word “orange” to describe the colour orange. Previously² in Old English, the colour orange had been called yellow-red (“geoluhread”).