köken: Inherited from Middle French soufre, from Old French sulfre, soffre, from Latin sulfur, sulphur, sulphure, from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”).
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish sufre, from Latin sulfur, sulphur, sulphure, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Compare modern French soufre. The initial a- could have appeared due to a misinterpretation of the expression piedra sufre (literally “sulfur stone”).
aile: azufrar, azufrera, azufrero, dióxido de azufre
köken: Borrowed from Persian گوگرد (gugerd, “sulfur”). Cognate with Tatar күкерт (kükert), Kyrgyz күкүрт (kükürt), Kazakh күкірт (kükırt), Uzbek oltingugurt, Turkmen kükürt, Turkish kükürt, Azerbaijani kükürd (“sulfur”), etc.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese suffre (with the prefix en-), from Latin sulfur, sulphur, suphure, from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Compare Galician xofre and Spanish azufre. Doublet of súlfur.
köken: From Old Swedish svavel, from Middle Low German swavel, swevel, from Old Saxon sweval, from Proto-Germanic *sweblaz. Cognate of German Schwefel, Dutch zwavel, Danish svovl, Old English swefl, Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌱𐌻𐍃 (swibls).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *rikki, of unknown further origin. Cognates include Ingrian rikki, Karelian rikki, Ludian rik (“sulfur, earwax”), Veps rik (“sulfur, rheum”) and Votic ričči. Germanic loan origin has been suggested (compare German Dreck), as well as indigenous derivation as rikka + -i.
köken: Either from feminine of pucios, from puți or from a Vulgar Latin root *puteōsa, from Latin puteō. Compare Italian puzzoso. Cf. also the name of the Italian city Pozzuoli, from the Latin name Puteoli, referring to the sulfuric smell in the area.
/juawa/ → /juwau/ → /iwau/ → /iwɔː/ → /iwoː/ → /ioː/ Originally a compound of 湯 (yu, “warm or hot water”) + 泡 (awa, “bubble”), from the way that volcanic hot springs would often be accompanied by bubbles of sulfur gas. The kanji spelling is an example of jukujikun (熟(じゅく)字(じ)訓(くん)), from Chinese 硫黃 /硫黄 (liúhuáng). An alternative theory is that the character 硫 (“sulfur”) developed an on'yomi of yu…