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		dragonwriter 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emac... > For thos curious Efrit is Genie in Arabi More precisely, as I understand it, “genie" is an anglicization of its Arabic equivalent, “jinn"; Efrit is a specific kind of jinn.

kgwgk 3 months ago [–]

Genie comes from Latin via French, it's not (just) a transliteration.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/genie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_(mythology)

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