Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)
| From: | Talpas Tim <tim@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 21, 2001, 16:04 |
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# Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
# > Where did these interesting names for coins in the US come from?
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# Penny: From the equivalent British coin, don't know origin of that term
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I believe penny comes from old(er) english, I don't know what the word is but
in Icelandic the cognate is 'pening', meaning "money". I imagine the OE word
was fairly similar to that.
-tim
http://www.zece.com/conlang/