Re: pinhole Quicksilver

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From: Algis Sodonis (asodonis@urbanschool.org)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 08:19:14 PDT 

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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:19:14 -0700
Subject: Re: pinhole Quicksilver
From: "Algis Sodonis" <asodonis@urbanschool.org>

In Lithuanian (the least modernized spoken Indo-european language)
the word for mercury is "gyvsidabris" which translates into: live silver.

Algis Sodonis

pinhole@exploratorium.edu writes:
>Quicksilver
>
>quick comes from an indo-european root meaning alive
>
>although now we apply it to mean fast, its older meaning is life.
>
>As in "cut to the quick" to cut so deeply you reach the living flesh.
>
>So quicksilver is "alive silver"
>
>Paul D
>refernce
>http://www.dsdelft.nl/~tneleme/elem/hg.html
>
>
>
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