• @Uruanna@lemmy.world
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      Hebrew used a generic word for fruit, all languages translated that word as their version of apple which was generic at the time, and then much later, all languages changed the meaning of their word for apple, it’s not specific to French. The use of apple for one specific fruit is fairly recent - more recent than the King James Bible, even.

      I don’t know what the word in Hebrew is and if it also changed its meaning since then, though.