People keep asking why "Appelsiini" isn't "apple".
The word comes from Early modern Swedish "appelsin" which in turn comes from either Dutch "appelsine" or Low German "Appelsin"
These words ultimately stem from a calque of "pomme de Sine" (chinese apple) from French.
So you might be half-right saing that the "appel-" part of "appelsiini" is related to the english word for "apple". However, the word "appel" does not exist in Finnish. The word was loaned based on it's sound, not translating it directly to "kiinanomena"
"Apple" is "omena" in Finnish, which comes from Proto-Finnic *omëna (and might be linked to Indo-Iranian)
In Finnish, the word "orange" (oranssi) does not mean both the fruit and color like it does in English. It is only the color.
Mass attack from the end of Artfight this year that I didn’t get a chance to actually upload to the site due to traffic, I had been waiting for a mod response on whether or not there was a way to get it up to post it here, and now I finally am! This took me the latter two weeks of the fight and I finished it an hour before the fight ended! The image file was actually even too large for tumblr so I had to shrink it in order to post, it’s so massive!
Even though it’s disappointing that I couldn’t upload it as an actual attack (28 characters, mostly fullbodies, with a full scene bg and at least partial shading, if not technically full would have been SO many points, gah!) it was still so fun to make and I learned a lot in doing so!
I can’t wait for next year’s fight!
Tag list (and artfight usernames of those not on tumblr) under the cut:
se et suomen kielessä on sana "appelsiini" mut meillä ei oo sellasta sanaa kuin "äpple" vaan omena on kyllä jonkinlainen saavutus. oijottiin pari mutkaa
First time participating in Artfight. I got four attacks done after working on my own character references for well into the month, taking a little break and ending up getting sick. I had fun though and wouldn't say this went too bad. It's still more art completed in a relatively short time than I've done in years. Next year's another chance.