I wonder if words like all and always (infinitives) have similar ancestry?:-)



>>>Add to that the concept of zero.
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>>Absolutely -
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>Not sure - absolute zero is not a concept, it's a physical phenomenon :).
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>Another word that surprised me to have come from Arabic is admiral, from "amir".
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>And word algebra comes from the title of Mohammad al-Horezmi's "al gebr al mukabala" - "about moving from one side to another" (of equal sign).
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>And another piece of science trivia: the word zenith comes from Arabic zemt - where the guy who copied the Latin transcription spotted a little blot above the "m" and thought it was a "ni" :).