köken: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin ēlectricus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās New Latin ēlectricitātemlbor. Portuguese eletricidade Learned borrowing from New Latin ēlectricitātem. By surface analysis, elétrico +…
electricity, electric current or power; clipping of elektricitet or elektrisk · short for el- och energiprogrammet
çekim: tamlayan els
köken: A contraction of elektricitet or elektrisk, that must have taken place between 1920 and 1975. SAOB (letter E edited in 1921) does not mention this, but does mention the prefix elektro-. Lilla Focus (1961) mentions el- as a prefix, but not as a word of its own. The use of el as a stand-alone word (not just a prefix) was discussed in Teknisk Tidskrift, 15 December 1934, referring to a proposal from…
1975, Håkan Winberg (m), speaking in the Riksdag on May 27 (protocol, page 264)
1980, Rune Torwald (c), speaking in the Riksdag on January 11 (protocol, page 46)
electricity (form of energy or power) · power (supply of electricity) · electricity, excitement
çekim: çoğul sähköt · tamlayan sähkön
eş: elektrisiteetti, lieke
köken: Coined by Finnish physician and author Samuel Roos in 1845, based on the verbs sähähtää (“to sizzle (briefly)”), sähistä (“to hiss”) and säkenöidä (“to sparkle”), säen (“spark”); sähk- + -ö.
köken: From Old Norse elri (“alder”), cf. ǫlr (compare Icelandic elri, Swedish al, Norwegian Bokmål older), from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō (compare English alder), variant of *alizō, *alisō (compare Dutch els, German Erle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisos.
Etimoloji
Borrowed from Chinese 電氣 /电气 (“electricity”), attested since the 1850s. The electric light sense arose from a contraction of 電気灯 (denkitō), itself from this same 電気 (denki, “electricity; electric”) + 灯 (tō, “lighting”). This sense is first attested in 1901.