bugsãan-kugre

Farefare

Etymology

A 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

/bùg.sã́ː.nɛ́.kúg.ɾé/

Noun

bugsãan-kugre

1. carbon