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Oh! That suddenly makes the Spanish "naranja" seem way more connected!

I don't know the connection but it is called narangi in Hindi, which is suspiciously close to not be connected.

Makes sense. It's borrowed from Sanskrit through Arabic: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/naranja

Same with "a napron" -> "an apron"

And "a notter" -> "an otter"

And "an ekename" -> "a nickname"

And "an ewt" became "a newt", so it goes both ways.

Was ewt pronounce yoot like newt being pronounced nyoot? Then at leas in modern English it would have been "a ewt" to begin with and no n for confustion.

I read up on this (rebracketing it's called), and now I understand why the snakes called Natter in German are adders in English, and that even made it back to German as ...otter (Kreuzotter for example).

So, is naming of the natterjack toad related to adders? Do they wear "adder jack[ets]"? The skin patterning is not completely dissimilar.

Makes sense.

Same with "nuncle" -> "uncle".

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/nuncle

Could it be because “a norange” and “an orange” sound very similar?

and "brid" -> "bird"