Alcohol's all well and goood, but how about the
elixir of love?
And didn't we once discuss "a norange", coming from an Arabic form I now fergit?
There must be loads more, from the centuries when Arabic scholars led the world in the sciences and mathematics and astronomy...
And there was an interesting (if not *entirely convincing) article in TVR a while back - lemme see if I can find it....
http://www.vocabula.com/VRJUNE01salloum.htmedit: oopsie, sorry Bill - somehow I missed your listing of elixir on first reading! ok, I have just seen this (which being a googlehound you have probably already seen, but!)...
http://users.erols.com/zenithco/Introl2.html