O/P term for one thousand
Jan F. Ullrich
jfu at centrum.cz
Wed Jan 18 19:41:42 UTC 2006
Hi David,
> This is purely anecdotal, but some of you word sleuths out
> there might be able to pursue it. Somewhere, somehow, once
> upon a time I heard that the Native American words for
> 'thousand' often had something to do with cash boxes in which
> silver dollars (or maybe gold pieces) were shipped. If
> that's true, using 'box' for 1000 might have developed that way.
This is interesting.
It makes me wonder if perhaps the Lakota word for khokta' - 'thousand'
originates from khoka' - 'wood box, keg, barrel'
Jan
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