Chemistry
I am trying to find the origion of the word Chemisty for a8 year old who is writing a paper on the word. Any information or direction would be great. Thanks
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Oh, perhaps we misunderstood. Yes, chemisty: n. - a teary-eyed nostalgia for asthmatic revolutionaries.
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Sometimes we feel for the searchers, as opposed to running them off, Geekster. Whacha want, a site dedicated to a sole poster?
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I don't feel for someone who does his kid's homework. Err...make that someone who asks others to do his kid's homework.In any case, blame kurwy for typo-picking, twarnt me. I just provided the...
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I don't mean to be rude, but Quote:I am trying to find the origin of the word Chemistry for an 8 year old who is writing a paper on the word An 8-year-old, writing a paper? Call me old-fashioned, but...
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Yes. In American Schoolspeak, as you call it, a "paper" is any assignment to write about something, irrespective of the age of the writer or sophistication of the writing. An 8-year-old's handful of...
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And, in this neck of the woods, you'd often be hard put to tell which was the work of the 8-year old and which of the 32-year old.
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Late Greek khemeia, khumeia, perhaps from Greek Khemia, EgyptOh, how this makes me gnash my teeth. This is the kind of thing you get these days, when "Out of Africa" nonsense is fashionable....
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Is it possible the Greeks had more than one name for Egypt, or used a name for a region of it synechdochally? (cf. Holland, Netherlands) Some pretty reputable sites repeat the Khemia/Egypt connection...
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Plutarch uses Khmia for 'Egypt,' which shows the ancient Greeks were aware of the native name for the land, but if that were the source, khmeia would date back to that period, not to a later one when...
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LOL, aldi, and thanks Dr T and RedTailed. That lacuna in my somewhat flawed mastery of Leftpondian is now filled.On this side of the water, "a paper" seems to be used in a school (i.e. under-18)...
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Quote:Late Greek khemeia, khumeia, perhaps from Greek Khemia, Egypt Oh, how this makes me gnash my teeth. This is the kind of thing you get these days, when "Out of Africa" nonsense is...
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No mention of Egypt in OED1 under Chemistry, Chemic or Chemical.Under Alchemy, however, it notes, "a. Arab al-kimia [leaving off the diacritics] i.e. al the + kimia, apparently a[fter?] Gr. Chemia...
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It appears to be identical. I think we can assume that Murray and company were not in the grip of Afrocentric faddism when they entertained the notion that the Greek word came from the name of...
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To save the futher gnashing of the teeth, I tried to find what the reference in OED1 to Mahn (Etym. Unt. 69) was on about. Nothing in the Bibliography of OED1 (shame on them), but found on the...
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Possibly slightly OT but the word "Egypt" seems to come from the Greek Aigptos ("supine goat") via Latin, cf. Aegyptus.L.
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The OED entry is a little confusing. Are they saying that the Greek word for sap or juice "chumeia" got conflated with a native Egyptian term for the Nile Valley "land of Kheim or Kame, hieroglyphic...
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As I read it, they discuss two possibilities. The first is that the word really comes from Khem (Egypt) and got conflated with the similar-sounding constellation of words relating to plant juices and...
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Dr T and Jim: I thank you and my teeth thank you! (I've been away for awhile because I've been forced to do actual work at my job for days now -- most unfair -- and my home computer has been offline...
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I have found the word to be Latin Greek. Chemy means the art of alloying metals and iry means occupation or result.
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