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The word "nickel"'s origin is actually German. When miners looking for copper struck nickel instead they often blamed their bad luck on a gremlin-like Sprite called Old Nick, whose name is related to various nicknames for the Devil. The ore was thus sometimes referred to as Kupfernickel, or "the devil's copper". Eventually the "Kupfer" prefix was dropped, resulting in nickel.
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Many people mistakenly spell the name as "nickle". That too is a valid word but it refers to a small European bird rather than a hard, silvery metal!
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Latin
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greek and Medieval latin
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latin and greek
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Greek-Latin.
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Did the word manual come from Greek or Latin?
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