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Thursday, October 23, 2008

What is the eytomology of the word "boursa"? It is certainly not Arabic although the word is used in modern Hebrew and Arabic to refer to the stock market.
PS Anindya tells me: ""bursa", Mediaeval Latin for 'purse', which in turn comes from "bysra", the Greek for ox-hide."

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