It’s just a Latin pun: malum = ‘evil’, mālum = ‘apple’.
Sure. Despite having never seen or worn clothes previously, they were able to make some. And then there’s the question of how exactly they sewed anything.
Unicorn horn needles.
Cf. the Playboy cartoon showing Adam with his wang poking through the fig leaf as Eve looks on in shock. Caption: “It was the only way I could get it to stay on.”
I suppose you (A & E really) could put sticky sap on the back side of the leaf and just sorta glue it in place.
Does the original Hebrew text unambiguously translate to “fig leaf”?
Correct-
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
Yes, it does. As I mentioned above, figs have been a staple food in the region from time immemorial; there’s no way the word for them could be confused with any other fruit.
I briefly lived in the highlands of PNG. They used a twisted natural-fibre waistband with stems of leaves inserted in the twist.
They mostly didn’t use top-half decoration (the weather was benign), but when they did, it was suspended from something similar hung around the neck.