Why are oranges called orange but bananas not called yellows?

[redheart]

did they run out of names to give fruits and just decided to call it orange cause it's orange?

 

[Member]

what would you call lemons then

[redheart]

what would you call lemons then

 

greens?

[fartsniffer]

Actually, the colour orange got its name from the fruit

[JihyoStoleMyHeartAYAYAY]

wow a question of the day nice 

[YNRA]

what would you call lemons then

citron 

[GREG.]

Maybe the colour orange was named after the fruit...

[redheart]

Actually, the colour orange got its name from the fruit

 

but then why is yellow not called banana?

[Honeystan]

what would you call lemons then

lemon yellows like da crayon 

[Member]

 

greens?

 

limes???

[starsocks]

Quality thread

[Grape Soda]

Why doesn't another word rhyme with orange

[lighterxx]

orange (color) is artificial to make, its named after the fruit

[Kim Seolhyun]

HOW THE FUCK DID THIS WIN

[lighterxx]

Why doesn't another word rhyme with orange

sporange?

[Lizzo]

what would you call lemons then

i'd call them bubbas

[lighterxx]

HOW THE FUCK DID THIS WIN

i clearly see his eye bags 

[Kim Seolhyun]

i clearly see his eye bags

 

EXACTLY WTFFFF

[JihyoStoleMyHeartAYAYAY]

I just googled your question and I find these answers interesting.....

 

English speakers actually used the word orange to describe the color after the word orange, or naranj, became integrated into the English language. The naranj is an Arabic word for the citrus fruit that found favor on trade routes. English speakers dropped the first letter "n" in common reference to the naranj fruit sometime after the Norman conquest (around the same time the "n" was dropped from napron to become apron). 

Prior to the commonly understood reference of the color of the naranj fruit, the word Ä¡eolurÄ“ad (literally "yellow-red") was used to reference the color English speakers understand as the color orange. 

The Old English word geolu, or geolwe refers to yellow as a "color," but the word banana is a word borrowed from Portuguese that references the fruit grown originally in West Africa. Although written documentation of this adoption is not extant, more than likely the Portuguese borrowed the word banana from the West African cultivators of the plant. 

With consideration of the actual pattern of language dispersal, the question should logically be "if orange is derived from an orange why isn't yellow called banana?" and the answer to that question is that there was a perfectly understood word for yellow in the English language.

[1]I double-checked my understanding with Robert Claiborne's Our Marvelous Native Tongue and the following Wikipedia pages: Orange (color), Orange (fruit), and Yellow (color).

 

cr quora

[semisomniac]

yellow is apparently derived from Old English: geolu, geolo and is related to "gold". 

[fartsniffer]

 

but then why is yellow not called banana?

Yellow is a primary colour and was more prominent from the beginning of human history. As you know, bananas, lemons, dying leaves, young capsicum are yellow so we couldn't just name the colour based on an object.

 

On the other hand, orange as a colour is less common in nature. We didn't even think of categorising orange as a colour by itself, thinking of it as a shade of red or yellow. Only when oranges began to see proper distribution around a millennium ago, we thought of giving the colour it's name... So we chose naranjas

 

TLDR - orange wasn't as prominent a colour so the naming came much later

[redheart]

I just googled your question and I find these answers interesting.....

 

English speakers actually used the word orange to describe the color after the word orange, or naranj, became integrated into the English language. The naranj is an Arabic word for the citrus fruit that found favor on trade routes. English speakers dropped the first letter "n" in common reference to the naranj fruit sometime after the Norman conquest (around the same time the "n" was dropped from napron to become apron). 

 

Prior to the commonly understood reference of the color of the naranj fruit, the word Ä¡eolurÄ“ad (literally "yellow-red") was used to reference the color English speakers understand as the color orange. 

 

The Old English word geolu, or geolwe refers to yellow as a "color," but the word banana is a word borrowed from Portuguese that references the fruit grown originally in West Africa. Although written documentation of this adoption is not extant, more than likely the Portuguese borrowed the word banana from the West African cultivators of the plant. 

 

With consideration of the actual pattern of language dispersal, the question should logically be "if orange is derived from an orange why isn't yellow called banana?" and the answer to that question is that there was a perfectly understood word for yellow in the English language.

 

[1]I double-checked my understanding with Robert Claiborne's Our Marvelous Native Tongue and the following Wikipedia pages: Orange (color), Orange (fruit), and Yellow (color).

 

cr quora

 

haa, it makes sense it's no logical to me but it does make sense

[Jinsus]

I mean if we're carrying on the citrus theme wouldn't it make more sense to call lemons 'yellows'. 

The responses to this thread are slightly informative. Thanks OH!

[Acer]

same like Apple should get called Red or green..wtf im mad.. 

[fartsniffer]

yellow is apparently derived from Old English: geolu, geolo and is related to "gold".

 

Yeah, interestingly," aurum" is Latin for gold, "oro" in Italian, and "hari" in sanskrit and eventually malay

 

Matahari, the Sun literally means "golden eye"

 

Argentina is named after argentum (silver in latin) - Land of Silver