French researcher Victor T. Junod was the first to describe symptoms of narcosis in 1834, noting the functions of the brain are activated, imagination is lively, thoughts have a peculiar charm and, in some persons, symptoms of intoxication are present.
The word green comes from the Middle English and Old English word grene, which, like the German word grÃ¼n, has the same root as the words grass and grow. It is from a Common Germanic *gronja-, which is also reflected in Old Norse grÃ¦nn, Old High German gruoni (but unattested in East Germanic), ultimately from a PIE root * ghre-to grow, and root-cognate with grass and to grow.
The name bismuth was probably taken from two German words, weisse masse, meaning white mass.. The phrase describes how the element appears in nature. Later the name was shortened to wismuth, and then to bisemutum, before bismuth came into common use.