![]() ![]() This linguistic change is called juncture loss. In French, for example, une norenge may have been heard as une orenge. In several languages, the initial n present in earlier forms of the word dropped off because it may have been mistaken as part of an indefinite article ending in an n sound. The French word, in turn, comes from Old Provençal auranja, based on the Arabic word. The word entered Late Middle English in the 14th century via Old French orenge (in the phrase pomme d'orenge). The Sanskrit word reached European languages through Persian نارنگ ( nārang) and its Arabic derivative نارنج ( nāranj). The word orange derives from the Sanskrit नारङ्ग ( nāraṅga or nagrungo ), meaning 'orange tree', which in turn derives from a Dravidian root word (compare நரந்தம் and നാരങ്ങ ( narandam and naranja) which refers to bitter orange in Tamil and Malayalam, respectively). It often serves as a rootstock for sweet orange trees and other Citrus cultivars. Trifoliate orange ( Poncirus trifoliata), sometimes included in the genus (classified as Citrus trifoliata).Mandarin orange ( Citrus reticulata) is an original species of citrus, and is a progenitor of the common orange.Like the sweet orange, it is a pomelo x mandarin hybrid, but arose from a distinct hybridization event. ![]()
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