köken: Borrowed from French gaz, from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void”). Compare natively formed Czech plyn, Serbo-Croatian пли̑н (i.e. **плын, akin to плыть (plytʹ), note Polish płyn).
accelerator, particle accelerator (machine or device used for accelerating particles) · accelerator (pedal of a car that accelerates) · accelerator (computer component using dedicated hardware to accelerate the processing and display of graphics)
çekim: çoğul akceleratory · tamlayan akceleratora
köken: Internationalism; compare English accelerator. Ultimately from Latin accelerō + -ator. First attested in 1910.
gas (state of matter) · gas pedal · laughing gas (particularly as an intoxicant)
çekim: çoğul kaasut · tamlayan kaasun
köken: Borrowed from a Sami language (compare Southern Sami gaasoe (“cold mist”)), from Proto-Samic *kāsō, from Proto-Uralic *käsä (“dew”). Originally a dialectal word meaning “(cold) mist, fog”, adopted as an equivalent of gas by Finnish physician and author Samuel Roos in 1845, by phonetic similarity with Dutch gas (whence words in many other European languages, such as English gas).