methane

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• Received-Pronunciation: mēth'ān
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmiːθeɪn/
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• Canada, US: mĕth'ān
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• Canada, US: /ˈmɛθeɪn/
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• CMU ARPABET: M EH1 TH EY2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *médhu Proto-Hellenic *méthu Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu) Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.? Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der. German -yl German Methylbor. English methyl Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānusder. English -ane English methane From methyl + -ane.

48 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: амета́н (ametʼán) — the compound CH4
• Azerbaijani: metan — the compound CH4
• Bengali: মিথেন (mithen) — the compound CH4
• Breton: metan — the compound CH4
• Bulgarian: метан (metan) — the compound CH4
• Catalan: metà — the compound CH4
• Chinese Cantonese: 甲烷 (gaap3 jyun4) — the compound CH4
• Chinese Mandarin: 甲烷 (jiǎwán) — the compound CH4
• Czech: metan — the compound CH4
• Dutch: methaan — the compound CH4
• Erzya: ведь тол (veď tol) — the compound CH4
• Esperanto: metano — the compound CH4
• Finnish: metaani — the compound CH4
• French: méthane — the compound CH4
• German: Methan — the compound CH4
• Greek: μεθάνιο (methánio) — the compound CH4
• Hebrew: מתאן (metán) — the compound CH4
• Hungarian: metán — the compound CH4
• Icelandic: metan — the compound CH4
• Indonesian: metana — the compound CH4
• Irish: meatán — the compound CH4
• Italian: metano — the compound CH4
• Japanese: メタン (metan) — the compound CH4
• Japanese: メタンガス (metan gasu) — the compound CH4
• Kazakh: метан (metan) — the compound CH4
• Khmer: មេតាន (meitaan) — the compound CH4
• Korean: 메탄 (metan) — the compound CH4
• Korean: 메테인 (metein) — the compound CH4
• Latin: methanum — the compound CH4
• Malay: metana — the compound CH4
• Norwegian Bokmål: metan — the compound CH4
• Norwegian Nynorsk: metan — the compound CH4
• Occitan: metan — the compound CH4
• Persian: متان (metân) — the compound CH4
• Polish: metan — the compound CH4
• Portuguese: metano — the compound CH4
• Punjabi: ਮੀਥੇਨ (mīthen) — the compound CH4
• Romanian: metan — the compound CH4
• Russian: мета́н (metán) — the compound CH4
• Slovene: metan — the compound CH4
• Spanish: metano — the compound CH4
• Swedish: metan — the compound CH4
• Tagalog: istan — the compound CH4
• Turkish: metan — the compound CH4
• Turkish: bataklık gazı — the compound CH4
• Vietnamese: mê-tan — the compound CH4
• Welsh: methan — the compound CH4
• Welsh: llosgnwy — the compound CH4