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- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*ungrōnī“not green”
- Old English · inherited fromungrēne“not green”
- Middle English · inherited fromungrene
- English todayungreen
From Middle English ungrene, from Old English ungrēne (“not green”), from Proto-West Germanic *ungrōnī (“not green”), equivalent to un- + green. Compare West Frisian ûngrien (“ungreen”), Dutch ongroen (“ungreen”), German ungrün (“not green”), Danish ugrøn (“ungreen”), Swedish ogrön (“ungreen”), Icelandic ógræn (“ungreen”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.