How can green simultaneously refer to something good and bad?

Roz's Random Ramblings by Roz Hirch

Episode notes

Have you ever noticed that green often represents both good things and bad? Green likely makes you think of foliage and new growth, but it is also the color used to represent poisons and witches' brews and people getting sick. How did that happen? This episode looks at the history of the word green, focusing on how and why it has developed these dual meanings. Look forward to feeling fresh, followed by feeling sick, in this revealing look at the color green.

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LinguisticsHistoryProto-Indo-EuropeanLanguageArt