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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5234 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 25 of 48 30 October 2011 at 8:26pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
For the colour we have at least four words in Norwegian: oransje, branngul (fire yellow), rødgul (red yellow) and appelsinfarga (orange coloured). Norwegian wins! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6690 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 26 of 48 30 October 2011 at 11:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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These names are in use in Swedish too:
brandgul - 89 300 hits (107 000 hits globally) rödgul - 187 000 hits (204 000 hits globally) apelsinfärgad - 242 000 hits (961 000 hits globally), you'll find all sorts of nuances if you add -färgad to an object or base colour (mandarinfärgad, lorangafärgad...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5245 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 27 of 48 30 October 2011 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
In Georgian too the word for the fruit is ფორთოხალი (portoxhali). I've no idea where the roots of this word lie. The word for the colour in Georgian is ნარანჯისფერი (naranjisperi). "Peri" means colour, and the root "naranj" (-is indicates the genitive) is, according to a quick Google search, a borrowing from Persian that has also been adopted by Spanish. Georgian borrows many words from Persian, so no surprise there, but the respective links with Albanian and Spanish are very interesting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5154 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 28 of 48 30 October 2011 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Just as you'd find all sorts of nuances if you attached '-y' to any colour and hyphenated it with the next: orangey-red - 404.000 hits orangey-pink - 137.000 hits orangey-pinky-blue - 6 hits (someone, please, show me that colour in an image) :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4954 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 29 of 48 31 October 2011 at 5:33am | IP Logged | ||||||||
All adaptations of the naraj- line can be traced back to Sanskrit. Of course Sanskrit may have borrowed it from another even older language. "Portokalli" = Portugal. It refers to Portugal's status as the main importer of oranges from East to West around the 16th century. This seems to suggest that oranges made their way from China/India to Portugal before spreading East again towards the Caucusus. Portugal likely accomplished this with their maritime prowess as well as the discovery of a sea route between East and West via the Cape of Good Hope. Would also seem to suggest that few (or no) oranges were actively traded along the Silk Road. Edited by strikingstar on 31 October 2011 at 5:38am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5245 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 30 of 48 31 October 2011 at 7:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Fascinating! Thanks for the information. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6484 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 31 of 48 31 October 2011 at 7:33am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Danish "appelsin" (probably from Low German, and ultimately derived from the word for 'apple') doesn't look quite like the word for the colour, "orange". Right now I'm trying to remember another word for beige than "beige" in any language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5628 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 48 31 October 2011 at 8:15am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Translation of the fruit "orange" and the colour "orange":
1. German: die Apfelsine - orange 2. Dutch: de sinaasappel - oranje 3. French: l'orange - orange 4. Italian: l'arancia - arancione 5. Spanish: la naranja - naranja 6. Esperanto: la orangxo - orangxkolora 7. Turkish: portakal - portakalrengi 8. Danish: appelsin - orange, orangefarvet 9. Portuguese: la laranja (EDIT)- cor-de-laranja 10. Swedish: appelsin - orange, orangefärgad Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 01 November 2011 at 8:06am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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