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West Frisian
Etymology
From soer + stof, calque of Dutch zuurstof, itself a calque of French oxygène (possibly via German Sauerstoff).
Noun
soerstof c (no plural)
- oxygen
Further reading
- “soerstof”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011