apelsin (sv) from sinaasappel (nl)
was just playing around with the Dutch course on the famed, almost homicidal, green owl platform when I got the thrill to discover a familiar word: sinaasappel. what was in the mind of the person who called an orange a Chinese apple? i tried to (briefly) look for the etymology but haven’t found a satisfactory explanation to the inception of the word. would love to see the trade history between China and the related countries













