mercury, quicksilver (Hg) · thermometer (in which the level of mercury indicates temperature) · lively thing or person, especially a child
çekim: çoğul elohopeat · tamlayan elohopean
köken: elo (“living”) + hopea (“silver”), perhaps a calque of Latin argentum vīvum (literally “living silver”). Coined by Finnish folk poetry researcher, translator and journalist Julius Krohn in 1860, as a shortening of earlier elävä hopea (literally “living silver”).
köken: From híg (“thin, dilute”) + -any (nominal suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. Coined by Bugát Pál.
aile: higanylámpa
Etimoloji
From Middle High German quëcsilber (also këcsilber), from Old High German quëcsilbar. Compare Dutch kwikzilver, Low German Quicksülver, English quicksilver. In this word survives the Central German form with qu-, otherwise displaced by keck (see there).