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he word green comes from the Middle English and Old English word green, which, like the German word green, has the same root as the words grass and grow. It is from a Common Germanic green-, which is also reflected in Old Norse green, Old High German groin (but unattested in East Germanic), ultimately from a PIE root gore "to grow", and root-cognate with grass and to grow. The first recorded use of the word as a color term in Old English dates to ca. AD 700.

Latin with verifies (and hence the Romance languages, and English very, verdure etc.) also has a genuine term for "green".Likewise the Slavic languages with relent. Ancient Greek also had a term for yellowish, pale green, cognate with “verdant" the green of new growth".

Thus, the languages mentioned above (Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Greek) have old terms for "green" which are derived from words for fresh, sprouting vegetation. However, comparative linguistics makes clear that these terms were coined independently, over the past few millennia, and there is no identifiable single Proto-Indo-European or word for "green". 

For example, the Slavic relent is cognate with Sanskrit hari "yellow, ochre, golden" The Turkic languages also have green" or "yellowish green", compared to a Mongolian word for "meadow".