Where does “Orange Shirt Day” come from?
Orange Shirt Day (English) comes from English Orange, from French Orange, from Spanish naranja, from Old Spanish naranja, from Arabic نَارَنْج, from Persian نارنگ, from Sanskrit नारङ्ग, from Dravidian dra — date palm.
Orange Shirt Day (English): September 30th; A national observance in remembrance of the time of year that Indigenous children were forcibly removed from Native homes to be forced into schools to assimilate into the colonizer's culture and lose their birth culture; and the cultural genocide and deaths of children at the schools
Definitions
- September 30th; A national observance in remembrance of the time of year that Indigenous children were forcibly removed from Native homes to be forced into schools to assimilate into the colonizer's culture and lose their birth culture; and the cultural genocide and deaths of children at the schools
Ancestry of “Orange Shirt Day”, step by step
Orange Shirt Day traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English Orange
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Orange | Relating to the Orange Order |
| 2 | French | Orange | Orange |
| 3 | Spanish | naranja | orange; Pertaining to Ciudadanos, a Spanish... |
| 4 | Old Spanish | naranja | orange |
| 5 | Arabic | نَارَنْج | bitter orange |
| 6 | Persian | نارنگ | bitter orange |
| 7 | Sanskrit | नारङ्ग | the orange-tree; the juice of the pepper plant;... |
| 8 | Dravidian | dra | — |
| 9 | Proto-Dravidian | *cīntu | date palm |