Talk:china

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The etymology of the Spanish CHINA is more likely to be the source lexeme, that the children's guessing game CHIN is derived from the CHINA (small pebbble)[6]; and compare WHIN[3] in WHINstone that is possibly a very distant derivative from the prehistoric root of this word. Andrew H. Gray 12:59, 20 March 2019 (UTC)Andrew (talk)

[3] = questionable and [6] = likely.