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Re: electronyms (was: Greek plurals)

From:Douglas Koller <laokou@...>
Date:Monday, September 17, 2007, 23:47
From: caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>

> >R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> >Isn't the modern Hebrew for 'electricity' derived from a Biblical > >Hebrew word for _amber_? And the Chinese is certainly non-Greek- > >based, namely dian4 (which IIRC is also the word for 'lightning').
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