The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγήινος“of earth”
- German · borrowed fromGeïn
- English todaygein
Borrowed from German Geïn, coined by Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1832, from Ancient Greek γήινος (gḗinos, “of earth”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.