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Vanadium

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means a hard, silvery-grey metallic element used to strengthen steel alloys
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Stage 1 of 2
Vanadis
Old Norse · medieval
"a name of the goddess Freyja"
another name for the goddess Freyja, honoring the element's beautifully colored compounds
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Stage 2 of 2
vanadium
English · 1830
"a hard, silvery-grey metallic element"
named by its discoverer after the Norse goddess
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