zenegroen

From Middle Dutch singroene, sindegroen, from Old Dutch *singrōni, from Proto-West Germanic *singrōnijā. Possibly an early calque of Latin sempervīvum, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ἀείζωον (aeízōon).

This word represents the sole inherited survival of the Germanic prefix *sin- in modern Dutch; zondvloed also contains it, but in folk-etymologically altered form and borrowed via High German.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzeː.nəˌɣrun/

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zenegroen n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. ajuga, bugleweed (Ajuga spp.)

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zenegroen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• zenegroen on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl