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
Pidgin of the English word "business", and all attestations from the first half of the nineteenth century given in the third edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary" mean 'business; an action, occupation, or affair' (the earliest being from 1807). The term "pidgin English" ("business English"), first attested in 1855, shows the term in transition to referring to language, and by the 1860s the term "pidgin" alone could refer to Pidgin English. The term was coming to be used in the more general linguistic sense represented by this article by the 1870s. A popular folk-etymology for "pidgin" is English "pigeon", a bird