What was the orange colour called in English before the late 15th century?
Correct answer: Yellow-red
Pompom 2
I like oranges!
RiverDawn
Still there is no word that rhymes precisely with "orange", although "courage" comes close!
little b
i dont like the colour yellow and orange 🍊
Kiwirobot
Alex Stavi, not from Portugal, but from the arabic for orange: burtuqal
gunes
calicot, what about instead of yellow for limon or red for apple and so on....
hannu🥰
Alex Stavi, also in Arabic is burtoghal
K
calicot, -wonder how they named orange orange
K
calicot, so they named the colour orange after the orange but i do wo
It’s The Dragon
Smack-dab in the middle!!!
Alex Stavi
the fruit, in romanian language, is "portocală" ; the color is "portocaliu" . So we, romanians, imported the term from Portugal