skābējs gaiss

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Latvian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

A term coined in the mid-19th century by K. Valdemārs, later reduced to skābējs. It never became popular and was soon replaced by the modern term skābeklis.[1]

Noun

[edit]

skābējs gaiss m (1st declension)

  1. (obsolete term) oxygen

Declension

[edit]

Synonyms

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “skābt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN