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Etymology and linguistic definitions

The word green has the same Germanic root as the words for grass and grow

The word green comes from the Middle English and Old English word grene, which, like


the German word grün, has the same root as the words grass and grow.[5] It is from a Common
Germanic *gronja-, which is also reflected in Old Norse grænn, Old High German gruoni (but
unattested in East Germanic), ultimately from a PIE root *ghre- "to grow", and root-cognate
with grass and to grow.[6] The first recorded use of the word as a color term in Old English dates
to ca. AD 700.[7]
Latin with viridis also has a genuine and widely used term for "green". Related to virere "to grow"
and ver "spring", it gave rise to words in several Romance languages, French vert,
Italian verde (and English vert, verdure etc.).[8] Likewise the Slavic
languages with zelenъ. Ancient Greek also had a term for yellowish, pale green
– χλωρός, chloros (cf. the color of chlorine), cognate with χλοερός "verdant" and χλόη "chloe, the
green of new growth".
Thus, the languages mentioned above (Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Greek) have old terms for
"green" which are derived from words for fresh, sprouting vegetation. However, comparative
linguistics makes clear that these terms were coined independently, over the past few millennia,
and there is no identifiable single Proto-Indo-European or word for "green". For example, the
Slavic zelenъ is cognate with Sanskrit hari "yellow, ochre, golden".[9] The Turkic languages also
have jašɨl "green" or "yellowish green", compared to a Mongolian word for "meadow". [10]

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