Lemon

[Meiraba Takhellambam]

Thank you professor



On 30 June 2014 10:47, <george.vandriem at isw.unibe.ch> wrote:

>  Dear Meiraba
>
>  What do you mean by lemon? The yellow fruit in modern supermarkets which
> is sold as a lemon might very well originate from the Indo-Burmese
> borderlands, but this hybrid does not appear to be a particularly ancient
> hybrid. *Citrus x limon* is currently believed to be a hybrid of the
> naturally occurring citron *Citrus medica* and the bitter orange hybrid
> *Citrus* × *aurantium. * The bitter orange is itself a hybrid of the
> shaddock *Citrus maxima *and the mandarin orange *Citrus reticulata. *Of
> course, there are also other species of the Citrus genus. Most of these
> trees do not grow on the Tibetan plateau, however.
>
>  Many good wishes,
> George
>
>
>
>   Professor Dr. George van Driem
> Director, Institute of Linguistics
> University of Bern
> Länggassstrasse 49
> CH 3000 Bern 9
> Switzerland
>
>  vandriem at isw.unibe.ch
> www.himalayanlanguages.org
>
>
>
>
>  On 30 Jun 2014, at 10:35, Meiraba Takhellambam <meiraba at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>  Dear All
>
>  Apologies for a silly query but can anybody help me out on how to say
> Lemon in Burmese and in Tibetan.
>
>  Best
>
>  Meiraba
>
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