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Show "Green" Has Aryan Root. Owing to Its derivation tho word "green" was originally applied to the color of vegetation, hut not to tho color of tho sea. No application of "green" to the color of tho sea is quoted before Chaucer, but as early as the year 700 It was usod for vegetation. vegeta-tion. The word Is akin to "grass" and "grow," which verb originally belonged belong-ed to tho vegetable world alono; vegetables veg-etables "grow," but animals "waxed." "Green" comes from an Aryan root, "ghahr," meaning to be green or yellow, yel-low, and "yellow," "gold" and "yolk" come from that same root. |