Here it is: The answer to the question you never thought you wanted to know.

According to T.A. Kenner’s book Symbols and Their Hidden Meanings, the earliest known uses of the word “orange” actually refer to the fruit first—and that the color was named after the fruit.

Before the world learned of the existence of orange the fruit, the color orange was actually known as “yellow-red” or “red-yellow.”

Wait. What was that sound?

Was that the sound of your whole world being turned upside down?

As it turns out, we can thank the French language for the whole thing: The word “orange” came about as a result of the Old French and Anglo-Norman French word “orenge,” derived from the old term for the fruit, pomme [apple!] d’orenge. (Like apples to oranges…)

The first known use of the word orange as fruit dates back to the 13th century, while the earliest recorded use of the word orange as a color goes back to the 16th century. However, it’s believed that even Old French borrowed the word from the Italian melarancio, meaning “fruit of the orange tree.”

Now maybe we understand the a peel of oranges a little more? No? Okay.