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Oct 04, 2006 14:45

nomarch - the governor of an ancient Egyptian nome; the senior administrator of a modern Greek nomarchy.

nome one of the thirty-six territorial divisions of ancient Egypt; an administrative dividsion of modern Greece.

from the Greek nomos 'division', archy being 'government'.

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keletkezes October 5 2006, 12:10:35 UTC
Any relation to the Russian word for dwarf (as in fantasy dwarf, not short person): гном? Or gnome as we know it, but we all know there are differences between dwarves and gnomes, really...

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frazzled_frosty October 5 2006, 13:11:35 UTC
see today's entry, coming up... :)

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