Emerald

emerald English +, Queensland <dab!> Etymology From en emerald. The Queensland town takes its name from the emerald and other precious stone deposits in the area and from the pastoral run Emerald Downs, a name chosen circa 1860 by pastoralist Peter Fitzallan MacDonald.Emerald – town in Central Highlands Region (entry 11598) https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/qld/environment/land/place-names/search#/search=Emerald&types=0&place=Emerald11598 Queensland Place Names Queensland Government 27 December 2020.Nomenclature of Queenland.—119 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36808439 The Courier-Mail 769 Queensland, Australia 15 February 1936 12. It is unclear if emeralds were found in or around Emerald. The given name is a modern coinage from the name of the gemstone, representing a vernacular form of en Esmeralda.90 Proper noun en town s/Queensland c/Australia. en town shire:Pref/Cardinia and the shire:Pref/Yarra Ranges central s/Victoria c/Australia en rural municipality in eastern p/Saskatchewan c/Canada the Rural Municipality of Emerald No. 277. en rare en female English. 1954 Theodore Sturgeon, The Golden Helix, in Leo Marguelis:Three Times Infinity, Fawcett Publications 1958, page 109: The child, a girl, was albino like April, and had exactly April's deep red eyes. Sol and Libra named her Emerald, a green name and a ground-term rather than a sky-term, as if in open expression of the slow spell worked on them all by Viridis. en 1978 Mary Manning The last chronicles of Ballyfungus 48 Mrs. Emerald Walsh was helping out at the presbytery. References