Learn if Adam and Eve ate the fruit apple as we know it today? How the fruit names like pineapple, watermelon, orange came to be? What do they call french fries in France? What came first - orange the fruit or orange the color?
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But do you know that beyond giving many of you an iPhone, and Newton the idea of gravity, apple also gave many fruits and vegetables their names? Beyond the obvious ones like pineapple and custard apple, origin of -- fruits like Banana, Pomegranate, Peach, Water Melon, Musk Melon
Vegetables like potato and tomoato
As well as objects like door knobs and granades all are linked back to apple!
Let’s learn etymology (Which is the study of the origin of words) of this amazing fruit together in today’s LearnWithDiva video. And as a bonus fun fact, stick around till the end of the video to find out which came first -- orange the fruit OR orange the color :)
In Old English the word apple simply meant fruit i.e. any kind of fruit. For example, in original Bible, Adam and Eve just ate the fruit of the forbidden tree. But the type of tree was never specified. Therefore, in the first translation of bible to English, it made sense to call this unidentified fruit an “apple” - meaning any kind of large fruit. But now, the meaning of the word has narrowed, and most people assume that the forbidden fruit was indeed a red apple.
So in old days, when people saw a specific fruit they had to describe it. Banana was called “Apple of paradise”. Pineapple, was simply fruit that looked like PineCone. Custard apple was a fruit that was filled with natural custard.
Until 400AD - The latin word for fruit (or English word Apple) was -- Melus, which later became Melon in different languages. So an apple or fruit filled with water became = Water Melon, A fruit that released sweet musk like fragrance became musk melon.
After 400AD -- Latin used word Pommum for fruit or apple -- Which became Pomo in Italy. Hence Pomodoro -- the italian word for tomoato - simply meant Golden Apple (as tomoato used to be golden and not red).
In Frence -- Pomumum became Pomme to mean fruit or apple. Pomme de terre referred to potato.. Meaning apple of earth. The french fries are simply called “pommes frites”, which literally means “fried apples”
The word granate meant “having many seeds” --- and pomegranate meant apple with lots of seeds
The word granate was later shortened to granade -- which is both french and English meant -- granade the explosive weapon. And this is not a coincidence. When grenades were first invented (way back in the 16th century), they received their name because people thought that they looked a bit like pomegranates. The next time you find yourself traveling in France, if someone there offers you a grenade, then it is probably safe to assume that they are offering you a fruit, not a weapon.
So what about Orange?
The orange has its root in sanskrit word nāraṅgaḥ. As the fruit traveled from India, it picked up new names like nāranj in Arabic in 10th centurary, which became arancio in Italian -- meaning orange tree. The fruit itself was then called melarancio -- which means apple of the oranage tree :) Funny enough, we today talk about difference between apple and oranages, which kinda meant the same thing in past :) It was not until much later 16th centuary, when in English dictionary the fruit became synonymoys with color. So now you know, fruit came long before the color :)
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