Incense "joss" is derived from the Latin "deus" (god) via the Portuguese "deos" through the Javanese "dejos", through Chinese pidgin English. The raw materials are powdered and then mixed together with a binder to form a paste, which, for direct burning incense, is then cut and dried into pellets. Incense of the Athonite Orthodox Christian tradition is made by powdering frankincense or fir resin, mixing it with essential oils. Floral fragrances are the most common, but citrus such as lemon is not uncommon. The incense mixture is then rolled out into a slab approximately 1 cm thick and left until the
Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin Kyakhta pidgin contains several new compounds that could have been inspired by Chinese: Like most pidgins Kyakhta pidgin lacks many morphological categories - there are no cases, numbers or gender of nouns. Russian pidgins in general tend to have clear verb indications. In Kyakhta Pidgin, similarly to other Siberian pidgins, most verbs have ending -j/-i: "болей" ("to be sick"), "выгони" ("to turn out"), "захорони" ("to bury"), "гоняй" ("to drive"), "незнай" ("to be unaware"), "ругай" ("to scold"), "сади" ("to seat"). This ending makes verbs similar to the imperative form of Russian verbs: for example, "болей" is the Russian verb "болеть" ("to