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Sino originally comes from the Greek Sinai, which became Sinaein Latin due to traditional first declension morphology. There is likely anSinstead of a Chdue to the fact that the Ch–sound that we use in the word "China" is present in neither Greek nor Latin.


Source: Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Volume XV (15), Page 538

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