What did they name first the color orange or the fruit orange?

Question

i think they either named the fruit orange cause it was the color orange (how uncreative) or tehy named the fruit and then saw the color some where else and said orange as the first thing they thought of!
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Answer 1

The same time because they saw the fruit and named it orange because the color of the fruit looked like it should be called orange.

Answer 2

I would say the color orange came first because when the English language was created, there were more orange things than just oranges. English came from northern europe, where there are no oranges...so the fruit name orange probably came into existence after people travelled to a tropical climate for the first time and saw oranges.

Answer 3

Foods and colors have many names in many languages. In this case, the roots for both appear to come from the same source....possibly Dravidian (southern India). This gives credit to your theory one was named for the other.

As to which came first...most believe it was the fruit. In many old languages, the color orange was simply named yellowred, since those were the two colors blended to make it. As the orange (fruit) trade spread, so too did the name for the color.

That's the theory anyway.

Answer 4

Sir Issac Ora and his friend Sir Randolh Nge saw a weird fruit while they were hunting one day orange used to becalled sunglow but they changed ti to Orange to celbrate the men who planted the fruit all over the world



















btw i am lying

Answer 5

i think the color...then they saw the fruit and decided to call it orange like the color cuz they were the same color!

Answer 6

Actually, the orange was first called the "Dark Yellow", but the marketing people knew that wouldn't catch on.
Knock knock
Who's there?
Banana.
Knock knock
Who's there?
Banana.
Knock knock
Who's there?
Orange.
Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn't say Banana?

Answer 7

i think that the fruit was around a lot longer than when they decided to mix colors.

Answer 8

The color.

Answer 9

The fruit -

Answer 10

I think it was the fruit