Where does “ケイ素” come from?
ケイ素 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 珪, from Dutch keiaarde, from Dutch aarde, from Middle Dutch erde, from Old Dutch ertha, from Proto-West Germanic erþu, from Proto-Germanic erþō, from Proto-Indo-European h₁er- — earth.
ケイ素 (Japanese): silicon, Si
Definitions
- silicon, Si
Ancestry of “ケイ素”, step by step
ケイ素 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.