[Ads-l] Antedating of "Hydrogen"

[Mark Mandel]

Oops, Etymonline's text that I just quoted gives 1787 for *hydrogène*, the
French immediate source of *hydrogen(e). *My apologies.

Mark Mandel

On Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 7:37 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Etymonline (Douglas Harper*) dates its origin to 1787
> (https://www.etymonline.com/word/hydrogen#etymonline_v_16108):
>
> *hydrogen (n.)*
> colorless, gaseous element, 1791, hydrogene, from French *hydrogène*
> (Modern Latin *hydrogenium*), coined 1787 by G. de Morveau, Lavoisier,
> Berthollet, and Fourcroy from Greek *hydr-*, stem of *hydor* "water"
> (from suffixed form of PIE root **wed-* (1) "water; wet") + French *-gène*
> "producing" (see *-gen*).
>
> Etymonline does not give citations for individual sourced statements, but
> has a long page listing all its sources:
> https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/sources
> * The foot of that page says
> (c)2001-2022 Douglas Harper
>
> Mark Mandel
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 5:03 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> hydrogen (OED 1791)
>>
>> 1790 _Times_ 17 June 3/4 (Newspapers.com)
>>
>> Dr. Beddoes, Mr. Edwards, a Commoner of Pembroke College, and Mr. Sadler,
>> the famous English aerostatist, sent up a balloon from Pembroke College
>> garden, filled with hydrogen gas from marshes.
>>
>> Fred Shapiro
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