Re: electronyms (was: Greek plurals)

2007/9/13, R A Brown <ray@...>:
> 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').
>
Technically wouldn't the mod. Hebrew word be counted then as sort of
"Greek-based", given that presumably it was one of those words that
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda or one of the Haskalah-ites (what do you call the
people of the Haskalah?) calqued from the major European tongues of
the time?

Or I may just be thinking too much. :-p

Eugene

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