why is an orange called orange an a bannana not called a yellow?

Answer 1

YOU have different coloured bananas
and oranges are yellow by nature, they are coloured for the selling market.

Answer 2

Because an orange is green when it's first on the tree, yet changes to orange. It's not called a green. A banana is called a banana, and has the same crisis. It starts green. The difference between them, is that an orange, while vaguely edible, never turns brown, whereas a banana does. One is left to wonder what the orange and banana tribes call themselves..
Best,
Tob

Answer 3

Orange derives from Sanskrit nāraṅgaḥ "orange tree", with borrowings through Persian nārang, Arabic nāranj, Spanish naranja, Late Latin arangia, Italian arancia or arancio, and Old French orenge, in chronological order. The first appearance in English dates from the 14th century. The name of the colour is derived from the fruit, first appearing in this sense in the 16th century.

Bananna started in 1597, borrowed by Sp. or Port. from a W. African word, possibly Wolof banana. The plant introduced to the New World from Africa, 1516.

The word bananna and yellow are not derived from each other, so that's why a bananna is not called a yellow.

Answer 4

Because oranges were named in Dutch (after the House of Orange, I believe, as a salute to the Royal House of Orange) and the term banana was derived from the Carib/African in which today's (Anglo Saxon) hard 'A' would have been pronounced as a much softer 'ay' sound

Answer 5

because oranges are the only orange fruit(unless you can name others as orange as the orange. not tangerines or mandarines). and there are more than one kind of orange fruit, like yellow apples or pineapples are yellow on the inside or starfruits(caramboles). Or maybe oranges used to be called something else like tangerine or manderine, but then some wierd person decided to call them oranges and it caught on. hope this helps you.

Answer 6

An orange is coloured arange but that's just a co-incidence. Now, take black grapes-That was deliberate. Custard is yellow but that's not mentioned. I know it sounds bananas but forget it. It's just a trifle.

Answer 7

Not sure but did you know that there is no word in the English language that rhymes with orange? Or silver!

Answer 8

For that matter, why are green grapes used to make white wine? And why is white wine actually pale yellow, and red wine purple? And why are blackboards actually green boards, and what color is the school board? And why can't you spell banana?

Answer 9

the same reason an apple is not called a red and a pear is not called a green because this is how the american language was written

Answer 10

someone already named it bannana, before the orange namer got to it.