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Haloalcohol comes from Arabic كُحْل ‘antimony’, and goes back to Sumerian na₄.šem-bi-zi-da ‘kohl’.

1. Sumerianc. 3100–1800 BCEna₄.šem-bi-zi-da¹transliterated*cuneiform na₄.šem-bi-zi-da, a transliteration; the original signs are in Wiktionary‘kohl’
2. Akkadianc. 2500–100 BCEguḫlum²transliterated*cuneiform guḫlum, a transliteration; the original signs are in Wiktionary
3. Aramaicc. 1000 BCE–700 CEכוחלא²kuḥlā‘stibnite, antimony’
4. Arabicc. 500–presentكُحْل²kuḥl‘antimony’
5. Andalusian Arabicc. 800–1600كُحُول²kuḥūl
6. Medieval Latinmodernalcohol²
7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500alcofol²
8. English1500–presentalcohol²
9. Englishtodayhaloalcohol²

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕
2. ² Wiktionary, English haloalcohol