მეთანი • (met'ani)=methane=μεθάνιο
WIKTIONARY: Etymology
From methyl + -ane.
From the German Methyl; compare the French méthyle.
French chemists Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Eugene Peligot, after
determining methanol's chemical structure, introduced "methylene" from
the Ancient Greek μέθυ (methy, “wine”) + ὕλη (hulē, “wood (patch of
trees)”) with the intention of highlighting its origins, "alcohol made
from wood (substance)", but with Greek language errors: the Greek for
"wood (substance)" is xylo- (Ancient Greek ξύλον (ksulon, “wood”)). The
term "methyl" was derived in about 1840 by back-formation from
"methylene", and was then applied to describe "methyl alcohol".
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