Where does “ethane” come from?
Ethane comes from English ethyl plus the suffix -ane, with ethyl derived from Latin -anus and -um combining to form the chemical nomenclature for saturated hydrocarbons.
ethane (English): An aliphatic hydrocarbon, CH, gaseous at normal...
Definitions
- An aliphatic hydrocarbon, CH, gaseous at normal...
Ancestry of “ethane”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | än | still, yet; no matter; than; in comparisons,... |
| 2 | English | on | In the state of being active, functioning or... |
| 3 | Middle English | on | on, in; on; Alternative form of oon |
| 4 | Old English | on | on, in, at, among; from |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | ana | on |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | *an | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | ana | on, at; on, onto; ana |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂en- | on, onto |
Words derived from “ethane”
- ethanol
- ethanolamine
- bioethanol
- mercaptoethanol
- phosphatidylethanolamine
- trichloroethane
- ethanolic
- ethanoic
- triethanolamine
- phenoxyethanol
- dibromoethane
- phosphoethanolamine
- chloroethane
- ethanologenic
- monoethanolamine
- ethanoyl
- bromoethane
- nitroethane
- iodoethane
- ethanedithiol
- epoxyethane
- tribromoethanol
- aminoethane
- hexafluoroethane