On 9-4-2018 8:39, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 9-4-2018 8:00, Sven Littkowski wrote:
>> Really? What a strange term! Thanks for the teaching. :-)
>>
> 
> "mother of pearl" --> "perlmutt"  ;-)
> 
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlmutt
> 

The French word's origin is also interesting by the way:

"1590-1600; < Medieval Latin nacrum, nacer, variant of nacara < Old 
Italian naccara kind of drum, nacre < Arabic naqqārah drum"

-- 
Thomas

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