silvern

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silvern

/ˈsɪlvɚn/ US
/ˈsɪlvən/ UK

Where it comes from

From Middle English sylveren, selverne, from Old English seolfren, from Proto-Germanic *silubrīnaz (“made of silver”); equivalent to silver + -(e)n. Cognate with Dutch zilveren (“silvern”), German silbern (“silvern”).

adjective

literary, not comparable Made of silver; resembling or characteristic of silver; silvery. But, leaving novelists alone, on the whole we find in real life that if speech is silvern, silence is essentially golden, and that more harm is done by saying too much than by saying too little; above all, that infinite mischief arises by not letting sleeping dogs lie.

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@misc{silvern_2026,
  title = {silvern},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/silvern},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}