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And do I understand you have an etymology Dutch online dictionary?
Alas, I think I found one, but will have to search through my older bookmarks to try to find it. The Dutch etymological dictionary I consulted was an older, paper one.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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palindromic
Well, I used to go by jheem hereabouts which was a Sanskritized (sorta) version of my first name, Jim. Zmjezhd is James spelled phonetically, backwards, but you have to imagine that the sequence zh is a digraph and the initial affricative has been split and reversed: /'ʤeɪmz/ -> /zmjeʒd/.
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Well, I used to go by jheem hereabouts which was a Sanskritized (sorta) version of my first name, Jim. Zmjezhd is James spelled phonetically, backwards, but you have to imagine that the sequence zh is a digraph and the initial affricative has been split and reversed: /'ʤeɪmz/ -> /zmjeʒd/. my apologies for mispelling - I was replying to someone who spelled it zmjhezd.
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When I first saw zmjezhd I was trying to derive it from the Russian змей, 'dragon' or змея, 'snake'. But the Cyrillic probably won't make it through the board's funny letters filter. In transliteration, 'zmjej' or 'zmjeya', where the 'j' indicates a glide.
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Do the many thanks mean you want to close the subject? Nah--I was just gettin' 'em in while I could; if I waited till I thought the thread had ended and then put them, I'd almost certainly forget to do it.
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i think there is something a little visually palindromic about those letters in devnagri ज़्मझेज़्द not a true palindrome but sort of hinting at it
I was referring to your devnagri word when I said I saw something resembling a palindrome. There is a sort of mirrored symetry in it. Sorry, the devnagri writing does not go correctly through the HTML -UBBC mill when it is quoted, so for reference you'd have to revisit your original post.
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about those letters in devnagri ज़्मझेज़्द >Sorry, the devnagri writing does not go correctly through the HTML -UBBC mill when it is quoted ?? (I suspect non-use of 'HTML and UBBCcode' for Markup)
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As is works for you, I understand your question marks. Not the sort of help you might be trying to give? Non of the Markup possiblities do the trick. At least not from my computer right now.
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Do the many thanks mean you want to close the subject? I was just getting there. It would be easier to call Zmjhezd ( still can't write it right without example) Dzem and take the tsk out tsuwm and call him Dzoom. What do you thinkz?  i think there is something a little visually palindromic about those letters in devnagri ज़्मझेज़्द not a true palindrome but sort of hinting at it Bran, I clicked the Quote button, and then chose "using HTML and UBBCode" for Markup and this is the result - perhaps I have something different set in my Edit Preferences..
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latishya's I can see, but not Faldage's. I guess I don't have the proper Cyrillic font.
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