Doctor Morbius wrote:
> No I meant: are sapphire and sapphic from the same root?> > --------------------------------
I don't believe so. Sapphire is a Hebrew word (I recalled from my old
seminary days, and confirmed via Google.)
http://homepage.boku.ac.at/h9440283/eetymol.htm
"Sapphic" is from the poet Sappho of Lesbos, who I don't believe was Hebrew.
Dave Matthews
