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topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yes, but no. It was never a norange in english. English directly adopted the word orange from french, so that’s the no, but yes, it was the word naranja from spanish, who took it from arab, and arancia from italian, and maybe from the word gold in french, which is “or”.

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