2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, inAmerican Scientist[1], volume100, number 2, archived fromthe original on14 June 2012, page128:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz andjade.
Shee hath more qualities then a Water-Spaniell,[…] Shee can fetch and carry: why a horſe can doe no more; nay, a horſe cannot fetch, but onely carry, therefore is ſhee better then aIade.
ThatIade hath eate bread from my Royall hand. / This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.
1640 (date written),H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ[Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life,[…]”, inΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ[Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul,[…], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:[…] Roger Daniel, printer to theUniversitie, published1642,→OCLC, book 2, stanza 47,page26:
[F]requent jot / Of his hard ſettingjade did ſo confound / The vvords that he by papyr-ſtealth had got, / That their loſt ſenſe the youngſter could not ſound, / Though he vvith mimical attention did abound.
Let that be as it may, as my purpoſe is to do exact juſtice to every creature brought upon the ſtage of this dramatic work,—I could not ſtifle this diſtinction in favour ofDonQuixote’s horſe;—in all other points the parſon’s horſe, I ſay, was juſt ſuch another,—for he was as lean, and as lank, and as ſorry ajade, asHumility herſelf could have beſtrided.
1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter X, inNorthanger Abbey; published inNorthanger Abbey: And Persuasion.[…], volume I, London:John Murray,[…], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818),→OCLC,page201:
My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-windedjade’s pace.
The king had no other horse to give him but an oldjade, for his six brothers and their men had taken all the other horses, but Ashiepattle did not mind that; he mounted the shabby old nag.
However, what ſhe withheld from the Infant, ſhe beſtowed with the utmoſt Profuſeneſs on the poor unknown Mother, whom ſhe called an impudent Slut, a wanton Huſſy, an audacious Harlot, a wickedJade, a vile Strumpet, with every other Appellation with which the Tongue of Virtue never fails to laſh thoſe who bring a Diſgrace on the Sex.
Sir Pitt Crawley was a philosopher with a taste for what is called low life. His first marriage with the daughter of the noble Binkie had been made under the auspices of his parents; and as he often told Lady Crawley in her life-time she was such a confounded quarrelsome high-bredjade that when she died he was hanged if he would ever take another of her sort[…]
[T]he Mind oncejaded by an attempt above its Power, it either is diſabl'd for the future, or elſe checks at any vigorous Undertaking ever after, at leaſt is very hardly brought to exert its Force again on any Subject that requires Thought and Meditation.
^Eric Partridge,Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English→ISBN, 2006)
^Per Thorson,Anglo-Norse studies: an inquiry into the Scandinavian elements in the modern English dialects, volume 1 (1936), page 52: "Yad sb. Sc Nhb Lakel Yks Lan, also in formsyaad,yaud,yawd,yoad,yod(e).... [jad, o] 'a work-horse, a mare' etc. ONjalda 'made', Sw. dial.jäldä, from Finnishelde (FT p. 319, Torp p. 156 fol.). Eng.jade is not related."
^Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research, page 18: "There is thus no etymological connection between ME.jāde MnE.jade and ME.jald MnE. dial.yaud etc. But the two words have influenced each other mutually, both formally and semantically."
“jade”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2 July 2023
jade on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedianl
