köken: /juːwau/ → /juːwɔː/ → /juːoː/ From Middle Chinese compound 雄黃 /雄黄 (hjuwng hwang, literally “male + yellow”), indicating the mineral realgar, in contrast to 雌黄 (tsiɛ hwang, literally “female + yellow”), indicating the mineral orpiment. Due to similarities between the two minerals, when the term was borrowed into Japanese, the meaning changed from realgar to orpiment.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-der. Proto-Italic *auzom Latin aurum Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ-der. Latin pingō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Latin pīgmentum Latin auripigmentumlbor. Polish aurypigment Learned borrowing from Latin auripigmentum.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-der. Proto-Italic *auzom Latin aurum Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ-der. Latin pingō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Latin pīgmentum Latin auripīgmentum From aurum (“gold”) + pīgmentum (“pigment”).