It's fortunes seem to have recovered in the meantime, with trydan and its derivatives being much more common today than lectric.
Curious -- when was this essay you read written? Trydan seems to fit better to the language than lectric anyways ...
So many of the languages I'm familiar with have borrowed some derivative of Greek elektron to designate electricity that it's always refreshing to find one which hasn't
Tell me about it! Imagine how disappointed I was to find out that in Russian you had электричество , elektrichestva, in Armenian էլեկտրականություն, electrakanut'yun, and even Turkish had the ho-hum elektrik, and Hungarian even worse with elektromos...
The only "interesting" one that I could mention here is Cherokee, which uses ᎠᎾᎦᎵᏍᎩ, anagalisdi, conjugated into a gerund form from the word for lightning, ᎠᎾᎦᎵᎠ, anagalia.
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Curious -- when was this essay you read written? Trydan seems to fit better to the language than lectric anyways ...
So many of the languages I'm familiar with have borrowed some derivative of Greek elektron to designate electricity that it's always refreshing to find one which hasn't
Tell me about it! Imagine how disappointed I was to find out that in Russian you had электричество , elektrichestva, in Armenian էլեկտրականություն, electrakanut'yun, and even Turkish had the ho-hum elektrik, and Hungarian even worse with elektromos...
The only "interesting" one that I could mention here is Cherokee, which uses ᎠᎾᎦᎵᏍᎩ, anagalisdi, conjugated into a gerund form from the word for lightning, ᎠᎾᎦᎵᎠ, anagalia.