Unitaz - Karandash

[augerot]

Thank you, Dino49, for your thoroughness. It is a good lesson for the young researcher: one shouldn't jump to conclusions, the article astutely concludes that the elements in карандаш aren't "black" and "stone" but more like "stick" and "graphite-like stone" and the more popular etymology is just that, folk etymology!

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james e. augerot 

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 lino59 at AMERITECH.NET wrote:

> There's an interesting ( to some? to me?) discussion of this etymology in
> the last section of this article beginning with Показательна в
> этом отношении этимология слова
> карандашhttp://www.relga.rsu.ru/n37/rus37.htm:
>
> http://www.relga.rsu.ru/n37/rus37.htm
>
>
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>> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:35:40 -0700
>> From: augerot <bigjim at U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
>> Subject: Re: Unitaz = "Universal'nyi Taz" = Toilet Bowl
>>
>> карандаш. Definition from Wiktionary, a free
> dictionary ... [edit] Etymology. From Turkish kara (black) + >taÅŸ
> (stone). [edit] Noun. карандаш (karandáš) m.
> ...
>>
>> .
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