Orange (colour) in Portuguese, and "orange" in English. The House of Orange-Nassau was one of the most influential royal houses in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. It originated in 1163 the tiny Principality of Orange, a feudal state of north of Avignon in southern France. The Principality of Orange took its name not from the fruit, but from a Roman-Celtic settlement on the site which was founded in 36 or 35 BC and was named Arausio, after a Celtic water god; however, the name may have been slightly altered, and the town associated with the colour, because it was on
Comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch languages, a member of a council or councillor is "raadslid". Whereas Dutch uses an apostrophe with an "s" as in English to form the genitive, or alternatively an "s" without an apostrophe, Afrikaans uses "se", hence "Maria's huis" and "haar broers probleem" would be "Maria se huis" and "haar broer se probleem" respectively. Afrikaans, like Dutch, has possessive pronouns to indicate ownership, hence "joune" and "jouwe", although Afrikaans omits the use of the definite article, hence "is dit jou glas of syne?" ("is that your glass or his?") in contrast to "is dat jouw glas of het zijne?" in Dutch.