Editing Gold (section)

=== 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="Christie-2011">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&nbsp;– Retrieved 7 June 2012</ref>