Where does “quecksilberhaltig” come from?
quecksilberhaltig (German) comes from German Quecksilber, from Middle High German quecsilber, from Old High German quecsilbar, from Old High German quec, from Proto-West Germanic kwik(k)w, from Proto-Germanic kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European gʷih₃wós, from Proto-Indo-European gʷeih₃w- — to live.
quecksilberhaltig (German): mercurial
Ancestry of “quecksilberhaltig”, step by step