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Where does “молибден” come from?

молибден (Kazakh) comes from Russian молибде́н, from New Latin molybdaenum, from Latin molybdaena, from Ancient Greek μόλυβδος, from Proto-Indo-European morkʷ-iyo-.

молибден (Kazakh): molybdenum

Definitions

  1. molybdenum

Ancestry of “молибден”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Russianмолибде́н—
2New Latinmolybdaenummolybdenum
3Latinmolybdaenanominative plural of molybdaenum; accusative...
4Ancient Greekμόλυβδοςlead; graphite
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmorkʷ-iyo-—
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