Etymology

bosonize

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Today it means: To describe a particle or system as if it were a boson and followed Bose-Einstein statistics. Full definition →

English boson ← Bengali বোস (bōs) ← Sanskrit वसु (vasu)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂wes-
  2. Sanskritवसु (vasu)
  3. Bengaliবোস (bōs)
  4. EnglishBose
  5. Englishboson
  6. English todaybosonize

From boson + -ize.

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