Noas

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Noas arabice es grece kalcos.


Apparatus:

es ABC e | os f {'e' misread as 'o'}

kalcos ABC e | kalkos f


Translation:

Noas is Arabic for Latin es {i.a. "copper"} and Greek kalcos {"copper"}.


Commentary:

Wehr (1976): ﻧﺤﺎﺱ /nuḥās/ "copper".

The Latin word is aes, which means acc. to Lewis & Short (1879) "any crude metal dug out of the earth (except gold + silver)"; esp. Aes Cyprium {i.e. "metal from Cyprus"}, whence cuprum means "copper".

Greek χαλκός /khalkós/ also means "copper".


See also: Calkos

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