What came first?

That's why we say gingers have red hair instead of orange because we didn't have a word for orange for a while. That's also why we say robins are red breasted.

Robin red-breast.

It was originally called æpplsin, or "red-yellow" in old english, and then after european empire the orange was brought to europe, and the colour of the orange represented the same colour of æpplsin, therefore we named the colour "orange".

You are incorrect, guest. The color was called 'geoluhread'.

This messed me up...

? Orange in french is just orange. Not pomme d'orange?

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-french/orange

I know potato is pomme de terre which literally means Apple of the earth

People in the above comments kinda already did