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Re:When Beethoven Met Goethe by colanderman on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:21PM (#14981901)
Note also that "genius" and "genie" are etymologically related, both descending from Latin "genius". [1]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genius#Latin

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Re:When Beethoven Met Goethe by beefman on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:46PM (#14985071)
I think genie is an anglicization of djinn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn

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Re:When Beethoven Met Goethe by colanderman on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:56PM (#14985131)
Djinn comes directly from Arabic, genie from Latin via French and Arabic influence. [1]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genie#Etymology

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