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Helena ([personal profile] orchidfire) wrote in [community profile] linguaphiles2009-06-14 11:06 pm
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Orange

What is the word for the color "orange" in the languages that you know? And for the fruit "orange"?
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[personal profile] coldlikedeath 2010-12-17 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Danish:

colour: orange (pronounced differently from english)
fruit: appelsin

Finnish:
-colour: oranssi
-fruit: appelsiini

Someone's already mentioned Norwegian.

Irish: oráiste

Polish: pomarańcza (fruit), pomarańczowy (colour)

Russian: апельсин (apel'sin- fruit) and оранжевый (oranzhevij- colour)