> Moreover, in ancient languages there were very few words that designed just a color, with no other meaning for the word, but it was very frequent to use words derived from the names of various things, which meant "of the color of the X thing".
replyIsn't this how things are still today? For example "orange".
Apparently the color name did come from the fruit, and therefore didn’t enter common use in English until around the 16th century.
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