köken: Inherited from Old Spanish alquimia, from Andalusian Arabic اَلْكِيمْيَا (al-kímya) and Medieval Latin alchemia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “ingot, bar”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese alquimia, from Andalusian Arabic اَلْكِيمْيَا (alkímya) and Medieval Latin alchemia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “ingot, bar”).
köken: Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 化學 /化学 (huàxué, literally “change + study”). Apparently first cited anywhere in an 1855 text in Chinese, in the diary of noted intellectual Wang Tao. First cited in Japanese in an 1860 translation of a Dutch text by 川(かわ)本(もと)幸(こう)民(みん) (Kawamoto Kōmin). Superseded older term 舎(せい)密(み) (seimi).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Latin alchēmīa Borrowed from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from Ancient Greek…
aile: alchēmista
Etimoloji
From scheiden + -kunde. Purism introduced by Simon Stevin in the 16th century to replace the Dutch word chemie (“chemistry”) which was a borrowing from Latin chimia.