Unless you have another, separate word for the color that you don’t have for the fruit, I’m not certain the relevance.
The eggplant looks like an egg when it’s growing. It’s such a wonderfully descriptive word that came to English first. Aubergine is a French many-times-borrowed word from Arabic. Very pretty word, but not super great identifier for the fruit. Thus it is just the name for the color (in my mind and in North America)
The fruit is where we got the word for the color! There was no color word for orange until the fruit started becoming known and traded around the globe. Boggled my fucking mind as a kid when I learned that.
Edit, it is early for me… As I don’t know anything about the origin of aubergine… is it the same deal? And I just need to wake up and catch up, lol?
Like orange?
Unless you have another, separate word for the color that you don’t have for the fruit, I’m not certain the relevance.
The eggplant looks like an egg when it’s growing. It’s such a wonderfully descriptive word that came to English first. Aubergine is a French many-times-borrowed word from Arabic. Very pretty word, but not super great identifier for the fruit. Thus it is just the name for the color (in my mind and in North America)
Now I’m picturing the “long egg” meme, but growing on a plant. How cool would it be for eggplants to essentially be a giant, hardboiled egg inside?
The fruit is where we got the word for the color! There was no color word for orange until the fruit started becoming known and traded around the globe. Boggled my fucking mind as a kid when I learned that.
Edit, it is early for me… As I don’t know anything about the origin of aubergine… is it the same deal? And I just need to wake up and catch up, lol?