Pointless
information: azo compounds, azides (stuff with N3- in
it) and azines (carbon rings with one or more nitrogen atoms as part of the
ring) all get their scrabble-winning names from azote, an old-fashioned English word for nitrogen. Azote
came from French, where it still means nitrogen today. Very confusing. The French got the name from Greek, where it
meant ‘without life’. In Greek, a (α) means not or without and zōē (ζωη) means
life.
