Re: Country names

David Starner wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:22:55AM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
>>Reminds me: www.zompist.com gives the following Arabic etymology for the word
>>"candy":
>>
>>candy - short for 'sugar candy', from sugar + qandi 'candied', from qand 'cane
>>sugar' - from a Dravidian language
>>
>>I was taught it derived from the placename "Candia", because Crete was a major
>>producer of sugar cane during some period. Does anyone know more about
>>this?
>
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> The 1913 Unabrigided Webster (available on the net) gives (excuse the
> random phonetic spelling that later got hacked into ASCII):
>
> Candy \Can"dy\ (k[a^]n"d[y^]),
I've never heard it with the stress on the second syllable before.

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