| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 14, 2007, 12:08 |
On 9/13/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:> And the Chinese is certainly non-Greek-based, namely > dian4 (which IIRC is also the word for 'lightning').Not surprisingly, this is also the Japanese morpheme -- pronounced "den" there. Hence words such as denshi "electron" and denki "electricity". Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>