köken: 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).
köken: From a hypothetical Middle Persian [script needed] (zywk' /*zīwag/, “mercury”), whence also Classical Syriac ܙܝܘܓ (zīwag). From Middle Persian [script needed] (zy(w)ndk' /zīndag, zīwandāg, zībandāg/, “living”), from [script needed] (zyw /*zīwa-,*zība-/, “live”), from Old Persian 𐎪𐎡𐎺 (ji-i-v /jīva/), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós. Compare semantically Latin argentum vivum,…
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 Old Galician-Portuguese açougue (13th century), from Arabic اَلسُّوق (as-sūq, “the market, the souq”), from Aramaic שוקא or ܫܘܩܐ (šūqā, “street, market”), from Akkadian 𒋻 (sūqu, “street”), from 𒊓𒀀𒆪 (sāqu, “narrow”). Cognate with Portuguese açougue, Spanish zoco and Maltese suq. Doublet of alcouce.