15.11.2017 Sing for stone

Lo Zinco

- Blusih-white, lustrous, diamagnetic metal
(dia - meaning Thru or Across)

- Probably named by Paracelsus
(modern name Zinc)
                              based on sharp pointed crystals after smelting
                              ("zinke" = pointed in German)

- "There is a stone near Andreida which yields Iron when burned/burnt. After being treated in a furnace with a certain earth it yields droplets of false silver. ..."
                            lost text "Philippica" of "Theopompus" C4th BC
                         
                            distillation of zinc ("droplets of false silver")

- Habashi writes "zinc" may be derived from Persinan

                             sing for stone


- Alchemists - zinc oxide
                        lana philosophica    
                                              (wooly tufts)
                     or Nix Album (white snow)

Alba - white
Nix - snow

Proto-Italic "sniks"
Proto-Indo-European "Sneyg"  --- snow

  


Latin/                      Singular                 Plural
nominative               nix                         nives
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Nix                  (PIE)  "negy" to wash

a treacherous water spirit

Nix                German, nichts, colloquial
nothing





Notes on research on Zinc (Sing for stone)
From Zinc to Snow
15.11.2017

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc
                    http://www.vanderkrogt.net/elements/element.php?sym=Zn
                    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nix