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Default Valpolicella: origins of the name

Steve Slatcher > wrote:

> I knew some Roman wrote in Greek, but I cannot think of any old
> word (older than television for example) or place name with a
> well-documented etymology that combines the 2 languages.


"Automobile" is older than television, albeit slightly.

A collegue jokingly referred to "ipsokinet".

M.