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napron > apron, nadder > adder, uncle > nuncle, eke-name > nick-name
Noakes < atten Oakes (at them Oakes), with dative of "the"
so also Rea < atter Ea (at the river)
I think naranja > laranja in Mediterranean language(s), not sure in which exactly, possibly Occitan, which was then re-analysed as l-aranja, then aranja was possibly assimilated to the town of Orange in southern France. The OED would give you the route; but the reanalysis took place before it was borrowed into English, I think.
My beloved's children introduced a new word "ron" for other drivers, deducing its existence from the fact that Mummy kept complaining about more rons.
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