English

antialcohol

Antialcohol comes from Arabic كُحْل ‘antimony’, and goes back to Sumerian na₄.šem-bi-zi-da ‘kohl’.

Sumerianc. 3100–1800 BCEna₄.šem-bi-zi-datransliterated*cuneiform na₄.šem-bi-zi-da, a transliteration‘kohl’
Akkadianc. 2500–100 BCEguḫlumtransliterated*cuneiform guḫlum, a transliteration
Aramaicc. 1000 BCE–700 CEכוחלאkuḥlā‘stibnite, antimony’
Arabicc. 500–presentكُحْلkuḥl‘antimony’
Andalusian Arabicc. 800–1600كُحُولkuḥūl
Medieval Latinmodernalcohol
Middle Englishc. 1150–1500alcofol
English1500–presentalcohol
Englishtodayantialcohol

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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Sumerianc. 3100–1800 BCEna₄.šem-bi-zi-datransliterated*cuneiform na₄.šem-bi-zi-da, a transliteration‘kohl’
Akkadianc. 2500–100 BCEguḫlumtransliterated*cuneiform guḫlum, a transliteration
Aramaicc. 1000 BCE–700 CEכוחלאkuḥlā‘stibnite, antimony’
Arabicc. 500–presentكُحْلkuḥl‘antimony’
Andalusian Arabicc. 800–1600كُحُولkuḥūl
Medieval Latinmodernalcohol
Middle Englishc. 1150–1500alcofol
English1500–presentalcohol
Englishtodayantialcohol

A compound of anti- + alcohol

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‘forehead’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts ‘forehead’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti ‘opposite’

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ ‘over against, opposite’

English anti-

Sumerian Sumerian form ‘kohl’

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Aramaic כוחלא

Arabic كُحْل ‘kohl’

Medieval Latin alcohol

Middle English alcofol

English alcohol

Linked words

through Arabic كُحْل ‘antimony’

through English alcohol

alcoholic, glycol, thiol, 17 more

Today it means

adj Opposed to the drinking of alcohol.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Sumerian na₄.šem-bi-zi-da / antialcohol

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