What is the meaning of each letter in the word chemistry?

Answer 1

The Short Answer:

It is generally held that the individual letters within a word don't mean anything, that the letters and digraphs/trigraphs within a word simply correspond to the sounds that one is supposed to make in order to pronounce the word.

The Long Answer:

While the majority of linguists today would probably assert that most words represent, at the very lowest level, arbitrary assemblies of sounds and letters, there have, nevertheless, been scholars, both modern and ancient, who have suggested otherwise. The Greek philosopher Plato, for example, in his dialogue Critias, suggested that certain letters, such as rand l, appeared to have specific meanings. A more recent example can be seen in a set of proposed meanings for the letters in the Latin alphabet that has been given the name Olin.

While no proof can be offered that letter-based translations for words are not either completely arbitrary or the product of confirmation (or similar) bias, fairly convincing translations can at times be observed. For example, using Olin meanings, the word chemistry can be seen to translate as "change heat out of liquid related within; change related change, that movement eye out of", which appears perhaps to describe written observations related to an exothermic or endothermic reaction.

Answer 2

The word "chemistry" is not an acronym. It refers to the scientific study of the composition, structure, properties, and reactions of matter.

Answer 3

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