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In Dutch, paintbrush is "penseel". Pen is pen, pencil is "potlood". "Lood" refers to the lead in the pencil (which isn't lead at all, of course).
by mcv 5y ago
In Dutch, paintbrush is "penseel". Pen is pen, pencil is "potlood". "Lood" refers to the lead in the pencil (which isn't lead at all, of course).
- jaclaz 5y agoYes, but when around 1500 a graphite deposit was found, it was considered a particular kind of lead, hence the "lead" in the name in many languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil#Graphite_deposit_discoveries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil#Graphite_deposit_discov...