gas.
gas
Meaning & usage
gas
liquefied petroleum gas
Where this word comes from
Coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae (1648), by way of deliberate similarity to Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, chaos”). Doublet of chaos.
unpaved street
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch gasse (“unpaved street”), from Middle High German gazze, from Old High German gazza, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.
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