English
alanine
From aldehyde + -anine, in reference to aldehyde, with the infix -an- for ease of pronunciation, when the German chemist Adolph Strecker first synthesized alanine in 1850 by mixing acetaldehyde (then just known as aldehyde) with ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, and hydrochloric acid.
Formed from aldehyde + -anine
Proto-Indo-European *wed- ‘water’
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ ‘water’
Proto-Hellenic *údōr ‘water’
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ ‘water’
German Aldehyd
English aldehyde
The story
From aldehyde + -anine, in reference to aldehyde, with the infix -an- for ease of pronunciation, when the German chemist Adolph Strecker first synthesized alanine in 1850 by mixing acetaldehyde (then just known as aldehyde) with ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, and hydrochloric acid.
Today it means
noun A nonessential amino acid 2-aminopropanoic acid found in most animal proteins
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / alanine