grow

Japanese: grow
grow

…Words such as green grass, green leaves, green vegetables, and even the green in a green traffic light are actually green. The Scandinavian words for green, such as green (English) and grün (German), originally share the same etymology as words meaning "to grow" (such as grow), and this is also the color of growing grass. The Sanskrit word harita means both green and yellow, and there are many examples in Indo-European languages ​​where green and yellow share the same etymology. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "grow" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…青草,青葉,青物などの語,さらに青信号などの青も実は緑である。緑を意味する北欧系の語green(英語),grün(ドイツ語)などはもともと〈育つ〉を意味する語(growなど)と語源を共にし,これもまた伸び育つ草の色である。サンスクリットのharitaは緑とともに黄をも意味するが,インド・ヨーロッパ語族では緑と黄とが語源を共通にする例も多い。…

※「grow」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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