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"orange"

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: "orange"
• Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 02:20:52 EST

In a message dated 2003-01-03 2:09:16 AM Eastern Standard Time, ngabwI' 
writes:


> : the english word for "orange" (the fruit) was once "norange") 

i don't think so.  my "webster's third new international dictionary" doesn't 
give a form with initial "n-" until you go back to the old arabic "naranj" 
which gave old provencal "auranja", long before the english word came into 
being.  
on the other hand, aprons and adders used to be naprons and nadders, a middle 
english result of incorrect division of 'a napron' and 'a naddre'.

lay'tel SIvten

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