Re: electronyms (was: Greek plurals)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 13, 2007, 15:42 |
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On 9/13/07, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> > And the Chinese is certainly non-Greek-based, namely
> > dian4 (which IIRC is also the word for 'lightning').
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> That, I suppose, would date the coinage to after Franklin's famous experiment.
Unless, of course, the Chinese already knew that lightning was
electrical in nature... they did precede us European types in some
discoveries. :)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>