why dehydrated grapes and plums are called raisins and prunes, respectively, but we don’t name other dehydrated fruits different from their original names?

Question

Where did the naming convention come from for these two fruits and why isn’t it applied to others?

Edit: this simple question has garnered far more attention than I thought it would. The bottom line is some English royals and French peasants used their own words for the same thing but used their respective versions for the crop vs the product. Very interesting. Also, I learned other languages have similar occurrences that don’t translate into English. Very cool.

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Answer 1

It depends on language. Dehydrated apricots are called “kuraga” in parts of Eurasia, for example.

Same reason some languages have a separate word for cottage cheese and others just call it a variation of cheese. Or why English has separate words for oil and butter.

It’s all language specific.