Oh, come on… well I’ll be.

Wow that’s a strange one.

Wait, what? No way!

that's really interesting. Google tells me that daizu (大豆) is the Japanese word for what we call soybeans, and that "soy" comes from the Japanese word shōyu (醤油) for the fermented sauce made from daizu. 'Course Google could be wrong.

It is.

TIL, as well, there is a SoyInfo Center.

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I’ve heard something similar about the color orange and the fruit, but it could be entirely apocryphal.

It's true. (Relatedly, though not foodily: The colour-word pink comes from the flower, even though many pinks are not pink. And pinks are named for their jagged-edged leaves, which look as though they were cut for ornamentation... as in "pinking shears".)

Now you have me thinking of those red hunting coats worn by English aristos, known as "hunting pinks."

That one is true, too. William of Orange. He's also why carrots are typically orange now, instead of purple or white.

Curiously, the words for the colour orange and the Principality of Orange have different roots, so William of Orange (William III of England, and others) is originally unrelated to the colour. (I just went on holiday to Orange in France - beautiful Roman amphitheater)

(Checks OED.) Right you are. But what we now call soy sauce was originally just "soy." That makes the derivation less weird.

somewhat similarly, the word 'oil' comes from the same root as the word for 'olive', and originally meant 'olive oil' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive#E...