Origin of the name Jade:
Taken from the name of the hard green or white jadeite or nephrite stone. The word came to England, via the French, from the Spanish piedra de ijada (stone of the side: from the belief that it cured pains in the side).
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Jadis is the name of the Witch in CS Lewis' book "The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe."
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