prettygoodword: text: words are sexy (words are sexy)
prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2015-08-17 07:49 am

jargoon

jargoon (djar-GOON) - n., a colorless (or sometimes pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon.


Sometimes also spelled jargon, which is confusing as jargon itself is a completely different word. On the other hand, this almost the same word as zircon: both come from Persian zar gun, gold-colored, but while zircon went through Arabic (as zarqūn) then French (as zircon) then German to get to English, jargoon went through Italian (as giargone) then French (as jargon) to English.

---L.

Post a comment in response:

This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting