Orange and Orange

Is orange called orange because oranges are orange, or is orange called orange because the color orange is orange?
- question from @wassium_berbar
Short answer: Orange is orange because oranges are orange. From there, Old French picked up the word as pume orenge, where ‘pume’ is fruit. Orenge then moved into Anglo-Norman, and eventually into Middle English as our familiar orange.

Orange or Orange, what is the difference?! They both are orange!

@SuperHarryPotterFan said in #1:
> Is orange called orange because oranges are orange, or is orange called orange because the color orange is orange?
> - question from @wassium_berbar
> Short answer: Orange is orange because oranges are orange. From there, Old French picked up the word as pume orenge, where ‘pume’ is fruit. Orenge then moved into Anglo-Norman, and eventually into Middle English as our familiar orange.
First time I read a sentence with as much oranges that actually make sense

i dont know anything about the oranges of the word, you should ask trump!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUPsNgmXR7M

@ThePracticeGuy said in #2:
> Orange or Orange, what is the difference?! They both are orange!

Not necessarily, the color Orange doesn't have to be on the Orange fruit to exist. Believe it or not; I've actually seen the color Orange before on a T-shirt, without referencing any Orange flavored fruit, or Orange Beverage, in fact. It was just an Orange shirt, I saw in that moment - really!

It was a joke. Of course I know the difference between a color and a fruit.

@SuperHarryPotterFan said in #1:
> Is orange called orange because oranges are orange, or is orange called orange because the color orange is orange?
> - question from @wassium_berbar
> Short answer: Orange is orange because oranges are orange. From there, Old French picked up the word as pume orenge, where ‘pume’ is fruit. Orenge then moved into Anglo-Norman, and eventually into Middle English as our familiar orange.
True fact: Orange is Orange because Orange is Orange.

@SuperHarryPotterFan said in #1:
> Is orange called orange because oranges are orange, or is orange called orange because the color orange is orange?
> - question from @wassim_berbar
> Short answer: Orange is orange because oranges are orange. From there, Old French picked up the word as pume orenge, where ‘pume’ is fruit. Orenge then moved into Anglo-Norman, and eventually into Middle English as our familiar orange.

First, ping my first name correctly. Then, yeah it could be logical, if orange wasn't spelled orenge. Even in French it's written orange.