Re: Concurrency
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 23, 2001, 15:21 |
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On 22 Dec 01, at 15:49, Matthew Kehrt wrote:
> Due to the recent discussion on the names and values of various
> currencies, I was wondering about the currencies of your various
> concultures. I'm especially interested in the etymologies of their
> various names.
For Verdurian, see http://www.zompist.com/kingdom.htm#Coinage .
Briefly, the coins are orh "gold", orhula "gold-<diminutive>", fale
"white", arzhentul "silver-<dim.>", emura "<name of the alloy of silver
and tin used for the coin>", and stan "tin". So the coins are named for
the metal or alloy they are made of (or their colour, in one case), and
for their size where two coins are made of the same material.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>