[Ads-l] origin of the term "coronavirus"

[Andy Bach]

Unrelated, but I thought it was interesting:
The Navajo word for coronavirus is “Diko Ntsaaígíí-Náhást’éíts’áadah.”



On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:38 AM Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu>
wrote:

> I'm with you - and so is Lewis and Short which cites it as 'virus i n'.  I
> am assuming it is not linked to vir 😏.
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> MARGARET E WINTERS
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> Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
> Wayne State University
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> JL:  << "Quid, me anxius sum?"  - Alfr. E. Neumannus >>
> WB: Căvē vīrus Vǔhànense!  Mĕtŭēte, maxŭmē mĕtŭēte!  (Ait nēmō numquam.)
> Wǔhàn 武漢/武汉: wǔ 'warlike, martial' + hàn 'Chinese'
> Quite possibly, Victor Davis Hanson & I are alone in thinking that the (nom
> /acc) plural of <vīrus> is <vīra>.
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