tangerine
TAN-juh-reen · noun
Origin
Tangerine comes from Tanger, the French name for Tangier, Morocco, combined with the English suffix -ine. That suffix traces back through Old French -in and Latin -inus to Proto-Indo-European *-inos, a marker meaning "of or belonging to."
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Journey
The word simply names the fruit after the place it was associated with, Tangier, with -ine marking its origin there.
Related words
The suffix -ine shares ancestry with other English words ending in -ine that descend from Latin -inus.