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Re: Etymology Chink
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Cuyler Page <[log in to unmask]>
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Light fuse ... retire quickly.
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Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:26:46 -0700
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Wunderbar !
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From: "Ken Follett" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:07 PM
Subject: Etymology Chink


> Etymology Chink
>
> The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology
>
> n. 1535 perhaps an altered version of chine (before 1382); found in
> chin, chine, cleft, split, crack, Old English (about 888) cinu, related
> to cinan to crack, split, gape; cognate with Old Saxon and Old High
> German kinan to burst open, spout, Gothic uskeinan to sprout out, and
> Old High German kimo sprout (modern German Keim, germ, bud, sprout). v.
> 1552, to crack, later, in American English, to fill in cracks (1748).
>
> Shaman

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