Gold Etymology
Gold is cognate with similar words in many Germanic languages, deriving via Proto-Germanic *gulþ from Proto-Indo-European *ghel ("yellow/green").[9][10]
The symbol Au is from the Latin: aurum, according to some sources meaning "shining dawn",[11] from Sabine ausum "glowing dawn"[12] although according to definitions within Latin dictionaries the meaning of the word aurum extends only to the same as today's reference to the metal.[13] The disagreement between definitions is possibly due to the accumulation of evidence from archaeology of the original anciency of the metal in civilization; in reference to "the dawn of civilization",[14] and in this respect has become the adopted modern meaning, disassociated from the original etymological Latin.[15]
