What is the origin of the word helium?

Answer 1

The name hydrogen comes from hydros and generos.Hydros means 'water' (from where we get the words hydrate and dehydrate, hydraulics, hydroelectric and so on) and generos means to 'make' or 'create' (from where we get the words generate, genitals, Genesis etc). Thus hydrogen means 'water maker'. It is so called because when hydrogen burns in air the product is water: 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O

Answer 2

Helium is named from the Greek word helios - which means 'the sun'. Pierre Jules César Janssen discovered helium when he viewed a solar eclipse and found a new line (587.49 nm) on the solar spectrum.
It was named after the Greek god of the Sun, Helios.
Helium was first discovered in the sun. Hence it gets its name from the Greek word, Helios, meaning the sun

Helium was first discovered in the sun spectroscopically. It get its name from the Greek word, Helios, meaning "the sun".

Helium was first discovered in the sun spectroscopically. It get its name from the Greek word, Helios, meaning "the sun".
The element was first discovered from the spectrum of the sun so it was named after the Sun Helios.
Helium is name is derived from the Greek name Helios - personification of the Sun in mythology.
Helium was first discovered in the sun. the name helium is derived from the Greek word, Helios, meaning the sun.

Helium was first discovered in the sun spectroscopically. It get its name from the Greek word, Helios, meaning "the sun".

It was first discovered as spectral lines in the sun. The sun was once known as Helios in another language, and the element name was derived from it.

The name is Helios and it is Greek for sun.

Answer 3

The origin of the word hydrogen is late 18th century, coined in French from Greek hudro 'water' + gen-.

Meaning something that generates water.