sulphur

Significado (Inglés)

1. (declension-3, neuter) sulfur, brimstone
2. (declension-3, neuter) lightning

Conceptos

azufre

Sinónimos

sulpur

sulfur

sulfur

sulfur-

sulphur-

Traducciones

Schwefel

soufre

zolfo

sulphur

enxofre

zwavel

sulfur

sofre

brimstone

كبريت

kükürt

θείο

θείον

sulfur

Pronunciado como (IPA)

[ˈsʊɫ.pʰʊr]

Etimología (Inglés)

From a Hellenisation of earlier sulpur, from the root *selp- (“fat, oil”). Cognate with English salve, Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís, “cleaned melted butter”), सृप्र (sṛprá, “greasy, smooth”), Tocharian B ṣalype (“ointment”), and perhaps ἔλπος (élpos, “?olive oil, fat”) or Ancient Greek ὄλπη (ólpē, “flask for oil”).
According to De Vaan citing Szemerényi, perhaps from an s-stem Proto-Indo-European *sélpos. However, De Vaan finds both the -él- > -ól- and -os > -ur changes to be irregular (for -ol- > -ul- see sulcus), adding that perhaps it comes from Proto-Italic *solpor, from an r/n-stem Proto-Indo-European *sólpr̥ instead. The Latin has also been suggested to stem from a non-Indo-European Wanderwort; see Proto-Germanic *sweblaz (“sulfur”) for more.