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Path: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: occam <occam@nowhere.nix> Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UmU6IFdvcmQgb2YgdGhlIGRheTog4oCcaXRoeXBoYWxsaWPigJ0=?= Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:53:11 +0200 Lines: 7 Message-ID: <ll202oFs4gpU1@mid.individual.net> References: <87frpwfdcz.fsf@parhasard.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net FTw2JaRnHTPWaZ5SIOe8FAbRLqcJEWDIIyErxXfQlx933/qR5k Cancel-Lock: sha1:tFzNtNr266of+jQc8+Ya5Ehgc1w= sha256:s625dddx71emZG9Smei77og1QTRNkZW1cwycbDle4m4= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <87frpwfdcz.fsf@parhasard.net> Bytes: 1228 On 19/09/2024 06:59, Aidan Kehoe wrote: > Another one that stuck for me was “metic”, “resident foreigner in a > Greek city state,” apparently not related to meticulous. Try 'hermetic' as a related concept. A 'foreigner' in ancient Greek was someone from another city state, even if that was a city in Greece. 'Greece' did not become an entity until much later.