jade

jade · noun, adjective¹

1. Latin · derived fromilia“flank”
2. Vulgar Latin · derived from*iliata
3. Spanish · derived frompiedra de ijada“flank stone”
4. French · borrowed fromle jade
5. English todayjade

Borrowed from French le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'éjade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”). (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side.)

jade · noun, verb²

1. myv · derived fromэльде
2. Moksha · derived fromэльде
3. Uralic · derived from
4. Old Norse · derived fromjalda“mare”
5. Middle English · inherited fromjade
6. English todayjade

From Middle English jade, chade, either a variant of yaud or merely influenced by it. Yaud derives from Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha эльде (elde) or Erzya эльде (elde). See yaud for more.

Jade · proper noun³

From the precious stone jade; taken into general use in the 1970s.

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