Etymology

greenism

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English green ← Middle English grene ← Old English grēne
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*grōniz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*grōnī
  3. Old Englishgrēne
  4. Middle Englishgrene
  5. Englishgreen
  6. English todaygreenism

From green + -ism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.