gas

(Îngilîzî)

gassen

Pircarînî

B1
Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/ɣɑs/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

In summary

Coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae (1648), by way of deliberate similarity to Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, chaos”).

Related words

gaz

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