bugsãan-kugre
Farefare
editEtymology
editA neologism created in 2021. Calque of Dutch koolstof and Calque of Japanese 炭素, with the last part changed to stone as a semantic loan from Chinese, where the element type is indicated in the radical. bugsãanɛ (“charcoal”) + kugre (“stone”), literally "charcoal stone"
Pronunciation
edit/bùg.sã́ː.nɛ́.kúg.ɾé/
Noun
editbugsãan-kugre