I miss my Directions turquoise which I had over bleached blonde. Got a hell of a laugh from the tutor at uni... Polite.
I doubt they're Ancient Greek – probably Byzantine. Will check as I'm curious even though I knew this from school.
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OK, so not actually from Greek to French at all. Actually from Italian to both: gomma < Latin gummi < Anc Gr κόμμι.
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so in Koine/Modern it goes as the link here says: http://www.lexigram.gr/lex/newg/%CE%B3%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%B1 …
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and for French from Latin gummi as etymology here says: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/gomme
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so yes, there is an Ancient Greek root to the word, but that's true for pretty much every IE word so kind of unfair.
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I like to give the full credit. LOL I am huge word nerd, OK, now for κόλα. I bet it will be similar.
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