the roundandround board of the firststuffs (was: Englishsyllable structure)

> > It seems rather a shame
> > that Mendeleev's "eka-" names were not kept and extended.
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> What's that?
When Mendeleev conceived the periodic table, he predicted the properties
of some of the missing elements.  The element just below aluminum he
called "eka-aluminum"; two rows below tellurium, "dvi-tellurium"; three
rows below manganese, "tri-manganese".  (Sanskrit numbers.  When I first
saw the "eka-" convention I thought it was related to Greek "ek-"!)


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