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Old February 24, 2010, 04:35 PM
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How can we say portatizas in English? A portatizas is a chalkcarrier.
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Old February 24, 2010, 04:47 PM
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Old February 24, 2010, 04:50 PM
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"Portagises" in Mexico.
(Tiza = gis)
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Old February 24, 2010, 10:12 PM
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"Portagises" in Mexico.
(Tiza = gis)
Is that in one of the indigenous languages?
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Old February 25, 2010, 09:48 AM
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@Hernán: No. "Gis" es una palabra en español, que según la RAE significa "clarión".
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Old February 25, 2010, 12:45 PM
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Curioso, nunca la había oído, pero me recuerda a la palabra catalana "guix" (tiza o yeso). Por cierto, la x en catalán se pronuncia como sh.
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Old February 25, 2010, 02:33 PM
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Perikles me hace falta aquí, pero supongo que "guix" y "gis" deben de tener un origen común en "gypsum" ("yeso" en latín).
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Old February 26, 2010, 12:54 AM
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Perikles me hace falta aquí, pero supongo que "guix" y "gis" deben de tener un origen común en "gypsum" ("yeso" en latín).
No me cabe ninguna duda.
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Old February 26, 2010, 05:20 AM
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Griego γύψος : (→ latín gypsum) gis, yeso; chalk, plaster
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Old February 26, 2010, 10:56 AM
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Griego γύψος : (→ latín gypsum) gis, yeso; chalk, plaster
And guix.
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In a classroom, "chalkholder" might also be a "chalktray"?

(As in: long narrow shelf below the "blackboard", or "chalkboard")
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Griego γύψος : (→ latín gypsum) gis, yeso; chalk, plaster
Gypsum es el nombre inglés de aljez (CaSO4 hidratado). Chalk es el nombre inglés de creta (CaCO3), pero también significa tiza. Hoy en día la tiza suele ser de aljez.

Lo que venden como plaster of Paris, yeso, es CaSO4 (aljez deshidratado); cuando añades agua, vuelve a formar aljez, y por eso se pone duro. Se denomina así en inglés porque había un gran pozo minero de aljez cerca de París.
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Gypsum es el nombre inglés de aljez (CaSO4 hidratado). Chalk es el nombre inglés de creta (CaCO3), pero también significa tiza. Hoy en día la tiza suele ser de aljez.

Lo que venden como plaster of Paris, yeso, es CaSO4 (aljez deshidratado); cuando añades agua, vuelve a formar aljez, y por eso se pone duro. Se denomina así en inglés porque había un gran pozo minero de aljez cerca de París.
Y aljez ← ár. hisp. alǧiṣṣ, ← ár. clás. ǧaṣṣ o ǧiṣṣ, ← pelvi gač, ← gr. γύψος
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Y aljez ← ár. hisp. alǧiṣṣ, ← ár. clás. ǧaṣṣ o ǧiṣṣ, ← pelvi gač, ← gr. γύψος
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Old February 27, 2010, 07:31 AM
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Gypsum es el nombre inglés de aljez
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Y aljez ← ár. hisp. alǧiṣṣ, ← ár. clás. ǧaṣṣ o ǧiṣṣ, ← pelvi gač, ← gr. γύψος
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No, honest . Just look at the above, and you'll see that English gypsum is in fact the same word as the Spanish aljez, from the same root. I need these connections in order to remember words.
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Is it related to "gypsy"?
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Old February 28, 2010, 01:16 PM
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Is it related to "gypsy"?
No - gypsy (also gipsy) comes from an old and mistaken belief that they came from Egypt.
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