gold · noun, symbol, adjective, verb1
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰelh₃-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰĺ̥h₃-to-m
- Proto-Germanic*gulþą
- Proto-West Germanic*golþ
- Old Englishgold
- Middle Englishgold
- English todaygold
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).
gold · adjective, adverb2
From gold master, a copy of the code certified as being ready for release.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishgold all →
Proto-Germanic*gulþą all →
Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰelh₃- all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.