Where does “klorfluorid” come from?

klorfluorid (Swedish) comes from Swedish klor, from English chlorine, from English -ine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a.

klorfluorid (Swedish): chlorine fluoride

Definitions

  1. chlorine fluoride

Ancestry of “klorfluorid”, step by step

klorfluorid traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Swedish klor

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishklorchlorine
2EnglishchlorineA toxic, green, gaseous chemical element with an...
3English-ineOf or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;...
4French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
5Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
6Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
7Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
8Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
9Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via Swedish fluorid

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishfluoridfluoride
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂