Re: Where does the name come from?

From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 9 Nov 2006 16:05:58 -0800

heliogabalus wrote:

Dusan Vukotic wrote:

Gr. khaos, Ger, Gasse (backstreet), Eng. gas, goose; gouache -
watercolor, guess, quash

Yes, Greek chaos is related to the English gas, but not to the English
goose:

In a very loose sense of "related": "gas" is not an inherited lexical
item, but an invented word from the person who invented the concept and
invented a word that reminded him of the English word "chaos."

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