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prettygoodword) wrote2015-08-17 07:49 am
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.
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.