amalgama.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der. Ancient Greek μᾰλᾰκός (mălăkós) Ancient Greek -σσω (-ssō) Ancient Greek μᾰλᾰ́σσω (mălắssō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma)bor. Arabic الْمَلْغَم (al-malḡam)bor. Latin amalgama * From Arabic الْمَلْغَم (al-malḡam), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma), which latter is from the stem as in μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”) and μαλακός (malakós, “soft”) and has developed from meanings of “emollient” over “malleable material”, “metal put around things”, to “gold” in Modern Greek, gold often the malleable metal fitted to things. * According to others some عَمْل الْجَمْع (ʕaml al-jamʕ) or الْجَمَاعَة (al-jamāʕa) has underlain, but this root is far from chemical meanings, it just means “adding up, gathering”, not “conjoining”.