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Where does “вольфрам” come from?

вольфрам (Kazakh) comes from Russian вольфра́м, from German Wolfram, from Old High German wolf, from Proto-West Germanic wulf, from Proto-Germanic wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European wĺ̥kʷos — wolf.

вольфрам (Kazakh): tungsten

Definitions

  1. tungsten

Ancestry of “вольфрам”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Russianвольфра́м—
2GermanWolframtungsten
3Old High Germanwolfwolf
4Proto-West Germanicwulfwolf
5Proto-Germanicwulfazwolf
6Proto-Indo-Europeanwĺ̥kʷoswolf
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