| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 13, 2007, 19:35 |
>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').The Senjecan word for "electricity" is 'domtsadhros,' tame or domesticated lightning. "Amber" is 'piithhjelnos,' i.e., "sap-jewel." Charlie