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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 12-05-2004 02:24 PM *Speaking of Silver* English is my first language. And chances are it will be my only language. I practice it every day. Hopefully, someday I will become truly fluent. Just for fun I have put this list together. I could use everyone’s help in correcting or adding to it. Argentum/Argenteum/Silver airgead = Irish Gaelic [Thanks doc] Argentum = Latin Argent = French Argento = Italian Argint = Romanian [Thanks blakstone] Argyros = Greek Asimi = Greek Arguro = Indo-European Arjuna = light = Sanskrit Ezüst = Hungarian [Thanks blakstone] Gümüs = Altaic languages Hopea = Finnish, Estonian Lien = Mapuche Chile (The Mapuche are the indigenous people of central and mid-southern Chile.) [Thanks Patrick Vyvyan] Noqrra = Pashtu, Tajik Plata = Spanish [Thanks swarter] Prata = Portuguese seolfor = Old English Silber = German Silbar = Old High German Silubr/Sirebro = Germanic, Slavic, Baltic Siluvar = Old Saxon Silfr = Old Norse Sim = Aromanian Sim = Turkish Sirebro = Old Slavic Sidabras = Lithuanian Siraplis = Old Prussian Sølv = Danish (The o with a slash is one of the extra letters they use. [Thanks ahwt] Srebro = Polish [Thanks blakstone] Stribro = Czech (with some diacritics that won't read on English web pages!) [Thanks blakstone] Zilver = Dutch/Netherlands Silverplate airgeadaithe = Irish Gaelic [Thanks doc] Silversmith gabha geal = Irish Gaelic [Thanks doc] Sterling Echt = Dutch Esterlina = Spanish Sterlina = Italian A few Native American additions [thanks WEV] Besh = Navajo Siksíksskim = Blackfoot Vókomemakaeta = Cheyenne Vhwihstakenra = Mohawk Zhooniyaawaabik = Ojibwe IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 12-10-2004 01:32 PM Thanks to WEV, swarter, ahwt, blakstone, doc & Patrick Vyvyan. I have made your suggested additions/changes to the above list. -------------------- See also the Speaking of Silver - Interconnections? thread. IP: Logged
nihontochicken Posts: 289 Registered: May 2003	posted 12-10-2004 07:43 PM Here's one you may or may not wish to add. In traditional Japanese fine metalwork, there are a number of interesting alloys used (e.g., mokume,shakudo,shibuichi,suaka,yamagane,sentoku). The best known is shakudo, copper with 4% gold, which patenates to a deep, purple black. Lesser known, but more important for us here, is an alloy known as shibuichi, 25% silver and 75% copper. Today it can be patenated in green, pink and blue, using different agents, but traditionally it was patenated in a light grey tone. Like shakudo, shibuichi was used in Japanese sword fittings, which may in some sense be considered "jewelry", since the ruling Japanese samurai did not generally wear jewelry in the western style. FWIW. IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 01-15-2007 03:25 PM I was looking in an old (circa 1932) Funk and Wagnalls under silver where they mention késeph as being the Hebrew word for silver. They also said késeph means “to be pale”. IP: Logged
bascall Posts: 1629 Registered: Nov 99	posted 03-16-2008 09:40 PM The Scottish gaelic word for silver is also airgead. Actually, Scottish gaelic and Irish gaelic are essentially the same language. While studying gaelic when living in County Argyll, Scotland in the '70's, I used to listen to a radio link up between Oban, Scotland and Dublin, Ireland. The two presenters understood each other quite easily. Some of the pronunciation was different, but the vocabulary and grammar are much the same. At that time I took and passed the examination for a Scottish O Grade Certificate. At this time however, I cringe to think how much has escaped me. IP: Logged

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