English

jadesheen

From jade + sheen.

A compound of jade + sheen

Latin ilia ‘flank’

Spanish piedra de ijada ‘flank stone’

French le jade

English jade

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- ‘to perceive’

Proto-Germanic *skauniz ‘beautiful’

Proto-West Germanic *skaunī ‘beautiful’

Old English sċīene ‘beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light’

Middle English shene

English sheen

Today it means

noun A green color like the precious stone jade.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / jadesheen