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sxrà.
(archaic) to make petrol, gasoline
Usage notes
This word is archaic. Today it connotes the stink of combustion engines.
Etymology
< NLem sxar‑a ‘fuel’
< LMLem, MLem isxar‑yr ‘vitality, survival skills’
< OLem hisxar‑ ‘vitality’
< PLem *hesxar‑ ‘(flowing) blood’
< PIE *h₁ésh₂r̥
doublet of sxarà.
Cognates
Eng iron, Lat sanguīs ‘blood’