Thursday, January 26, 2012

Eureka - Erkihúrra! (Archhurrah!)

The first element in the name of Archimedes, Arch is identical to the Icelandic prefix erki- so I combined it with the exclamation húrra (hurrah) to create an alternative for the Archimedean exclamation 'Heureka', meaning 'I've found it! Erkihúrra consist of a hellenism (Erki-) and a germanism (húrra), but the compound is purely uninternational. However it is possible to form an English loan-translation: Archhurrah! A weird sequence of characters don't you think?

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