From: John Mettraux <jmettraux@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T12:30:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

On 7/19/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>
> Well ... since you brought it up ... 'genius' comes from 'djinn', an
> Arabic word quite often corrupted in English into 'genie' -- yep, the
> guy that comes of out oil lamps and grants wishes, sometimes in
> off-color jokes. :)

'Genius' seems to come from Latin, whereas 'Genie' comes from Arabic
(via French). (According to the dictionary in my MacBook and some
other resources : http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/genie).


Cheers,

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John Mettraux   -///-   http://jmettraux.openwfe.org