Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
To appear or cause to appear golden.
adj
Made of gold. · Having the colour of gold. · Premium, superior. · Of a musical recording, having sold 500,000 copies.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79. · A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so. · A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold. · The bullseye of an archery target.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰĺ̥h₃-to-mder. Proto-Germanic *gulþą Proto-West Germanic *golþ Old English gold Middle English gold English gold From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Related to yellow; see there for more. Germanic cognates include Scots gowd, Dutch goud, German Gold, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk gull, Danish and Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages include Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiongoldenm
- Inherited-form mentiongoldang · gold
- Inherited-form mention*golþgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*gulþągem-pro · gold
- Inherited-form mention*ǵʰl̥h₃tómine-pro · gold
- Derivation mention*ǵʰelh₃-ine-pro · green, yellow
- Cognate mentiongowdsco
- Cognate mentiongoudnl
- Cognate mentionGoldde
- Cognate mentionzeltslv
- Cognate mentionзо́лотоru
- Cognate mentionزردfa
- Cognate mentionहिरण्यsa
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