Re: Scientist's etymology vs. scientific etymology

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> > I can agree that greek could very well be the origin of
> > germanic word butter but there's also the chance it could
> > have taken the course via latin from another language
> > without greek being the "middle man".
>
> The spelling of Latin <butyrum> with <y> is a very good
> indication that it came from Greek.

Not quite, cf the Latin spelling lacryma.


Torsten