From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@devicelogics.com>
Cc: krishna <krishna.c@globaledgesoft.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [OT] Re: How to understand flow of kernel code
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 13:55:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041204125534.GA8659@pclin040.win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41AF3EC3.7060807@devicelogics.com>
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:11:47AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Interesting trivia. Krishna in hindi means "all attractive". The Greeks
> took the word and
> over time it was corrupted into the word "Christ" which was later used
> for Jesus of Nazereth.
> I lot of people probably don't know his last name actually came from the
> Vedic culture.
Hmm - don't think you are a reliable source of etymological information.
Krishna means "black".
Christos means "anointed".
The IE roots are different. The krs-no- is seen e.g. in Slavic cerny
(black). The ghrei- is perhaps seen in English grime.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-04 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-02 4:46 krishna
2004-12-02 6:21 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-12-02 16:11 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-12-04 12:55 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2004-12-04 16:39 ` Manu Abraham
2004-12-04 14:51 ` Jon Masters
2004-12-27 20:22 ` David Eger
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