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Where does “phenylalanine” come from?

Phenylalanine is a modern English scientific coinage from aldehyde and alanine, ultimately deriving from Ancient Greek φαίνω meaning "to show" and Proto-Indo-European roots bʰeh₂- and bʰeh₂-s-ri-.

phenylalanine (English): An essential amino acid CHNO found in most animal...

Definitions

  1. An essential amino acid CHNO found in most animal...

Ancestry of “phenylalanine”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishalanineA nonessential amino acid "2-aminopropanoic acid"...
2EnglishaldehydeAny of a large class of reactive organic...
3GermanAldehydaldehyde
4Latinalcoholkohl, collyrium, stibium; any other powder...
5Andalusian Arabicكُحُول—
6Arabicكحلantimony; kohl, stibnite; black coloring of the...
7Arabicكُحْلantimony; kohl, stibnite
8Akkadianguḫlum—

Words derived from “phenylalanine”

  • phenylalanyl
  • polyphenylalanine
  • fluorophenylalanine
  • homophenylalanine
  • phenylalaninase
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