Where does “chemically peculiar star” come from?
chemically peculiar star (English) comes from English chemically, from English chemical, from English -ál, from English aldehyde, from German Aldehyd, from Latin alcohol, from Andalusian Arabic كُحُول, from Arabic كحل — kohl, antimony paste.
chemically peculiar star (English): A main-sequence star with an unusually high abundance of metal
Definitions
- A main-sequence star with an unusually high abundance of metal
Ancestry of “chemically peculiar star”, step by step
chemically peculiar star traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English chemically
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chemically | Using a chemical reaction, process, or operation;... |
| 2 | English | chemical | Of or relating to chemistry; Of or relating to a... |
| 3 | English | -ál | Of or pertaining to. Adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to produce an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also |
| 4 | English | aldehyde | Any of a large class of reactive organic... |
| 5 | German | Aldehyd | aldehyde |
| 6 | Latin | alcohol | kohl, collyrium, stibium; any other powder... |
| 7 | Andalusian Arabic | كُحُول | — |
| 8 | Arabic | كحل | antimony; kohl, stibnite; black coloring of the... |
| 9 | Arabic | كُحْل | antimony; kohl, stibnite |
| 10 | Akkadian | guḫlum | kohl, antimony paste |
via English star
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | star | Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless... |
| 2 | Middle English | sterre | star |
| 3 | Old English | steorra | star |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | sterrō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | sternô | star |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂stḗr | star |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eHs- | to be/become dry; to burn, to glow; hearth |
via English peculiar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | peculiar | Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual;... |
| 2 | Latin | peculiaris | private; personal; peculiar, specific |
| 3 | Latin | pecūlium | private property (originally in the form of cattle, but later in the form of savings) |
| 4 | Latin | pecus | A group of large domestic animals: a herd of... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *pekos | — |