кисень

Ukrainian

Chemical element
O
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Etymology

From ки́снути (kýsnuty, to turn sour) + -ень (-enʹ), a freely translated calque of New Latin oxygenium.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɪsenʲ]
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Noun

ки́сень • (kýsenʹ) m inan (genitive ки́сню, uncountable, relational adjective кисне́вий)

  1. (uncountable) oxygen (chemical element)

Declension

References

  1. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “кисень”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

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