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On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:16 AM, thomasruhm <thomas@hidden.email> wrote: > ** > > > I found some more arabian latin words. They all start with 'c', but there > are many with 'b' too, which I will look up later. > > Cabrîtus or cabrîtês - sulphur, > Carrajina already has a word for sulphur, cognate with sulphur. > cacabre - ambre (you know, those stones in Jurassic Park), > Interesting, since *amber* is also derived from Arabic. > cacaramum - pitchstone (something like black glass), > Might need to add that one. I'm sure the alchemists needed that word. > câcollae - cardamom or grains of paradise (I don't know how that > tastes), > Well, cardamom is in common use in my kitchen, but grains of paradise is still outside my ken. Though I did see it at the Arab market the other day. clîmia - calamine (a stone); Interesting. > > I don't know the vowel length one should use best for 'cacabre' and > 'cacaramum'. For the others I took the arabic lengths. 'Clîmia' is, if I > understood the entry right, derived from the same greek word as 'calamine', > but it took the way over arabic. > > Next time I will probably write about the north italian text on the tablet. > > Yours Thomas > Thanks for all the random bits of this and that you have been posting/asking lately. I have found it really useful in further developing Carrajina. I hope you have derived similar befefit. Adam [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]