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Aurum Gold
Goud – Gold – Or – Oro – 金 – Золото – 金
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Goud – Gold – Or – Oro – 金 – Золото – 金
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Multilingual dictionary
Indo-European
Aurum Latin— Germanic
Goud AfrikaansGuld Danish Gold German Gold English Gull Faroese Goud Frisian (West) Gull Icelandic Gold Luxembourgish Goud Dutch Gull Norwegian Guld Swedish — Italic
Oro AragoneseAmalãmã Aromanian Oru Asturian Or Catalan Oro Spanish Or French Aur Friulian Ouro Galician Oro Italian Óor Lombard Aur Occitan Ouro Portuguese Aur Romanian - Moldovan — Slavic
Злато [Zlato] BulgarianZlato Bosnian Золата [zolata] Belarusian Zlato Czech Zlato Croatian Złoto Kashubian Злато [Zlato] Macedonian Złoto Polish Золото [Zoloto] Russian Zlato Slovak Zlato Slovenian Злато [Zlato] Serbian Золото [zoloto] Ukrainian — Baltic
Auksas LithuanianZelts Latvian Auksos Samogitian — Celtic
Aour BretonAur Welsh Òr Gaelic (Irish) Òr Gaelic (Scottish) Airh Gaelic (Manx) Owr Cornish — Other Indo-European
Χρυσος [chrysos] GreekՈսկի [oski] Armenian Ar[i] Albanian — Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Zêr KurdishСызгъæрин [syzg"ærin] Ossetian Тилло [Tillo] Tajik — Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
গোল্ড [golḍ] Bengaliطلا [tla] Persian સોનું [sonu'] Gujarati सोना [sonā] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Kuld EstonianKulta Finnish Arany Hungarian Зарни [Zarin] Komi Шӧртньӧ [Šörtn'ö] Mari Сирнае, Зрня [sirnae, zrnja] Moksha Kuld Võro Altaic
Qızıl AzerbaijaniЫлтăн [Yltăn] Chuvash Алтын [altyn] Kazakh Алтын [Altyn] Kyrgyz Алт [alt] Mongolian Altın Turkish ئالتۇن ['altun] Uyghur Oltin Uzbek Other (Europe)
Urrea Basqueოქრო [ok'ro] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
ذهب [dhahab] Arabicזהב [zahav] Hebrew Deheb Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Kîm Hakka金 [kin] Japanese 금 [geum] Korean ทองคำ [thongkam] Thai Vàng Vietnamese 金 [jin1 / gam1] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Bulawan CebuanoEmas Indonesian Koura Māori Aurum, Emas Malay Other Asiatic
സ്വര്ണം [svarṇam] Malayalamபொன் [poṉ] Tamil Africa
Wólo LingalaGauta Sesotho Auri, Dhahabu Swahili North-America
Cōztic teōcuitlatl NahuatlSouth-America
Quri QuechuaCreole
Gowtu Sranan TongoArtificial
Oro EsperantoNew names
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History & Etymology
Cold-hammering was used in the late Stone Age to produce plates of gold for ornamental purposes, and this metal has always been synonymous with beauty, wealth and power. Gold ornaments of great variety and elaborate workmanship have been discovered on sites belonging to the earliest known civilizations; Minoan, Egyptian, Assyrian, Etruscan, and in ancient literature Gold is the universal symbol of the highest purity and value. Cf. passages in the Old Testament, e.g. Ps. xix, 10: "More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold."Some of the early rich finds of gold artifacts were from the cemeteries in Bulgaria in Europe (5th millennium BC) with accouterments of hammered and sheet gold. Some of the most elegant gold vessels made by the repousse technique come from the Mesopotamia (ca 2500 BC). The Babylonian name for gold - hurasu has a distant resemblance to the Ancient Greek word Χρυσος [chrysos], which is found in the earliest texts. Possibly, this word originates from the name of the place where Gold was found. Spectacular gold castings are known from ancient Egypt, such as the coffin of Tutankhamun (a minor Pharaoh who was only 18 when he died), which contained no less than 112 kg of gold. The Gold mines of Egypt were in Nubia. Hence the ancient Egyptian name for gold - nub. Early gold and silver ornaments from the Indian subcontinent are found from Indus Valley sites such as Mohenjodaro (ca 3000 BC). The ancient Indian word ayas for Gold was later used in other languages for the designation of copper, which, possibly, serves as indication of propagation in the antiquity of false gold. 
The legendary Aztec and Inca hoards in Mexico and Peru were a major reason for the Spanish conquests of Central and South America in the early sixteenth century. From the earliest times gold was compared with the sun, it was called the solar metal or simply by the sun (Sol). The alchemist symbol for gold - a circle with a dot in the center, is identical with the symbol for the sun. In the alchemic literature gold was indicated with many words, usually encoded, such as: zaras, trikor, sol, sonir, secur, senior, etc., and also several words with an Arab origin, for example al-bahag (gladness), hiti (cat dung), ras (head, principle), su'a (ray), diya (light), and alam (peace). In astrology alchemy the seven heavenly bodies known to the ancients were associated with seven metals also known in antiquity:
The long history of Gold is reflected in the many different words for this metal, although many names seem to mean originally "yellow (metal)". See the list of names to the left and in the overview of Gold in over 100 languages (click here).
The Slavic languages use different forms of золото, zlato. This word, used from the earliest times, is undoubtedly is connected with the earliest Indo-European Sol (sun).
Chemistianity 1873
YAYAN
GOLD, the value-type metal through past time, Irresistibly magnetic to all men, Named Aurum, is a brilliant yellow metal; In thin films by transmitted light 'tis green. Gold is the most mall'able of all metals, One grain can cover fifty square inches! It is as soft nearly as Lead; does not tarnish In pure Air or Water at any heat; At high temp'rature it is somewhat volatile. J. Carrington Sellars, Chemistianity, 1873, p. 178-179
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