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Re: [xml-dev] CHAT: Bagels and lox

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To: jtauber@jtauber.com (James Tauber)
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] CHAT: Bagels and lox
From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:20:37 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org, larsga@garshol.priv.no (Lars Marius Garshol)
In-reply-to: <006401c220fd$41d26f40$8520f0d4@HARRY> from "James Tauber" at Jul 01, 2002 08:46:00 PM

James Tauber scripsit:

> More likely both are derived from some older Germanic parent language.

Indeed the word has Indo-European roots: compare the Hindi word lakh,
meaning specifically 10^5 today, but originally just "a whole lot",
referring to the density and prolificacy of salmon spawns.

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