Editing Silver (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''silver'' appears in [[Old English]] in various spellings, such as {{Lang|ang|seolfor}} and {{Lang|ang|siolfor}}. It is [[cognate]] with [[Old High German]] {{Lang|goh|silabar}}; [[Gothic language|Gothic]] {{Lang|got|silubr}}; or [[Old Norse]] {{Lang|non|silfr}}, all ultimately deriving from [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]] ''*silubra''. The [[Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic]] words for silver are rather similar to the Germanic ones (e.g. [[Russian language|Russian]] {{Lang|ru|серебро}} [{{Transliteration|ru|serebró}}], [[Polish language|Polish]] {{Lang|pl|srebro}}, [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]] {{Lang|lt|sidãbras}}), as is the [[Celtiberians|Celtiberian]] form ''silabur''. They may have a common Indo-European origin, although their morphology rather suggest a non-Indo-European ''[[Wanderwort]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kroonen|first=Guus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgmFRAAACAAJ|title=Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic|date=2013|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-18340-7|pages=436|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Mallory-2006">{{Cite book|last1=Mallory|first1=James P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNUSDAAAQBAJ|title=The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World|last2=Adams|first2=Douglas Q.|date=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-928791-8|pages=241–242|language=en|author-link=J. P. Mallory|author-link2=Douglas Q. Adams}}</ref> Some scholars have thus proposed a [[Paleo-Hispanic languages|Paleo-Hispanic]] origin, pointing to the [[Basque language|Basque]] form {{Lang|eu|zilharr}} as an evidence.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Boutkan|first1=Dirk|last2=Kossmann|first2=Maarten|date=2001|title=On the Etymology of "Silver"|journal=NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution|language=en|volume=38|issue=1|pages=3–15|doi=10.1075/nowele.38.01bou}}</ref>

The chemical symbol Ag is from the [[Latin]] word for ''silver'', ''{{Lang|la|argentum}}'' (compare [[Ancient Greek]] {{Lang|grc|ἄργυρος}}, {{Transliteration|grc|árgyros}}), from the [[Proto-Indo-European]] root *''h₂erǵ-'' (formerly reconstructed as ''*arǵ-''), meaning {{gloss|white}} or {{gloss|shining}}. This was the usual Proto-Indo-European word for the metal, whose reflexes are missing in Germanic and Balto-Slavic.<ref name="Mallory-2006" />