Gold Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Etymology === [[File:Beowulf - gold.jpg|thumb|An early mention of gold in the ''[[Beowulf]]'']] ''Gold'' is [[cognate]] with similar words in many [[Germanic languages]], deriving via [[Proto-Germanic]] [[wikt:Appendix:Proto-Germanic/gulþą|*''gulþą'']] from [[Proto-Indo-European]] [[wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵʰelh₃-|*''ǵʰelh₃-'']] {{gloss|to shine, to gleam; to be yellow or green}}.<ref>{{OEtymD|gold}}</ref><ref>Hesse, R W. (2007) [https://books.google.com/books?id=DIWEi5Hg93gC&pg=PA103 Jewelrymaking Through History: An Encyclopedia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101113823/https://books.google.com/books?id=DIWEi5Hg93gC&pg=PA103 |date=1 November 2022 }}, Greenwood Publishing Group. {{ISBN|0313335079}}</ref> The symbol ''Au'' is from the [[Latin]] {{lang|la|[[:wikt:aurum|aurum]]}} {{gloss|gold}}.<ref>Notre Dame University [http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?stem=Aurum&ending= Latin Dictionary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205123228/http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?stem=Aurum&ending= |date=5 February 2016 }} Retrieved 7 June 2012</ref> The Proto-Indo-European ancestor of ''aurum'' was ''*h₂é-h₂us-o-'', meaning {{gloss|glow}}. This word is derived from the same [[Root (linguistics)|root]] (Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂u̯es-'' {{gloss|to dawn}}) as [[wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/h₂éwsōs|''*h₂éu̯sōs'']], the ancestor of the Latin word {{lang|la|[[aurora]]}} {{gloss|dawn}}.<ref>{{cite book |last=de Vaan |first=Michel |title=Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic languages |date=2008 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden: Boston |isbn=978-90-04-16797-1 |page=63}}</ref> This etymological relationship is presumably behind the frequent claim in scientific publications that {{lang|la|aurum}} meant {{gloss|shining dawn}}.<ref name="Brathwaite">Christie, A and Brathwaite, R. (Last updated 2 November 2011) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130208092020/http://www.nzpam.govt.nz/cms/pdf-library/minerals/publications/Commodity%20Reports/report14_gold.pdf Mineral Commodity Report 14 — Gold], Institute of geological and Nuclear sciences Ltd – Retrieved 7 June 2012</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page