Re: electronyms

In a message dated 9/14/2007 8:53:11 AM Central Daylight Time, 
conlang@MELROCH.SE writes:


> On 2007-09-14 John Vertical wrote:
> > The crutch is that Finnish doesn't really derive _sähkö_ from
> > anywhere -
> > it's a completely inanalyzable word with no secondary meanings,
> > basically an
> > a priori coinage with some vaig phonesthetic influences. I was
> > wondering if
> > any other natlang also does THAT.
> >
> > ...I could ask the same for any other "modern" concept, really. Modern
> > Finnish is probably much more Constructed than any other extant
> > standard
> > language, and yet I can't really think of any other such words in
> > use, so to
> > find more such hits might require loosening the requirements.
> 
> Finnish is actually only a vague reflexion of its southern
> 
The Finnish Wikipedia mentions the etymology of "sähkö".

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4hk%C3%B6

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