English
Orangetown
From Orange + town, originally being in Orange County, New York.
Old French pomme d'orenge ‘orange’
Old French orenge
Middle French orange
Middle English orenge
English Orange
Proto-Celtic *dūnom ‘stronghold, rampart’
Proto-Germanic *tūną ‘fence, enclosure’
Proto-West Germanic *tūn ‘fence’
Old English tūn ‘an enclosed piece of ground’
Middle English toun ‘a town or city’
English town
The story
From Orange + town, originally being in Orange County, New York.
Today it means
name A town in Rockland County, New York, United States.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Orangetown