3: anana Dec 11, 2014

24 European and Asia languages have the exact same word for "pineapple", it being "anana". Many other languages have a word of similar sound. English feels a need to feel different however. Its word, "pineapple" is not derived from any other language, but from it being a fruit, hence apple (also consider crabapple) and the fruit itself having the stiff, spiny-edged leaves, hence pine.