If an orange is orange, why isn't a lime called a green, and a lemon called a yellow?

Question

p,s. I am not copying these questions I am just very intellectual

Answer 1

ill tell you why but you have to read my answer carefully :
the orange color is called orange due to the orange the fruit .. the other colors arent named to any kind of fruit

don't you think i wroth best answer..!

Answer 2

see the reason is because an orange it's not really orange (not all the time anyways) but fiery yellow, so we don't call it orange because of the color we call the color orange because of the fruit.


Huh, so I guess the real question is why don't we call green lime and yellow lemon??? Now that's a real mystery

Answer 3

Because the word for the color orange was derived from the name of the fruit. It was derived from the Sanskrit work narangah, meaning "orange tree"--which in old french, was pronounced orenge. The word orange as a fruit didn't actually appear in the english language until around the 14th century.

the name of the color, derived from the fruit first appeared inthe 16th century.

There have also been arguements that sanskrit may have adapted the word from other languages such as italian or dravidian. Anyways, that's that story.

Answer 4

Probably coz orange was the original name for the fruit. And since the reddish yellowish shade didn't have a name (at the time) they just called it orange. (They were probably contemplating pumpkins too but not all pumpkins are orange, so the best would be Orange)

Answer 5

i guess it's because there are a lot of things you see every day that are green(think of all the plants there are) or yellow (the sun, flowers, dead leaves...) but you don't see many orange things that are natural every day... so an orange is pretty much the only thing you see often that is "orange", making it a great representative for the color!

Answer 6

Coz a lime can be even yellow and lemon can be green.

Answer 7

Because we live in america where we have stupid silent k's and ph for f and gh for f and silent p's. Our whole language is retarded!!!!! Why is an apple called an apple? I would like to know too! One word i can't stand is elbow! Sorry, i know that has nothin to do with what you asked, but had to get it out! lol

Answer 8

i think you should make a riot and establish a new parliamental party where you try to change the names of fruits... i believe in you

Answer 9

Well, my daughter calls the color white-milk Brown-chocolate and red-apple so you tell me lol.

Answer 10

for the same reason animals have real names and are not called depending on their color