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The History of Ink

Thaddeus Davids

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .TINCTA, TINCTUM, from the verb TINGO, which is represented in English by TINGE, and other derivatives, such as “tincture,” &c. We cannot refuse to recognize the Holland-Dutch “Inkt” as from the same root to which we have thus traced the corresponding word in a language which we may call its “cousin-German;” and it is hard to exclude the Old French “Enque” and modern “Encre” from this circle of relationship.

Then, we are somewhat impressed by the discovery of the word Ingvas in the Illyrian, a language of the Slavonic (or more properly Slovenic) stock, like the Polish,—and, like that, enriched by words derived from the Latin. The Polish, however, presents us with the actual Graeco-Latin Encaustrum.

Still more remote from the English and Italian, we find among the Orientals of the Shemitish race, ANGHAS and NIKSON in the Arabic, and N’KASHO in the. . . Read More

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