As part of the Indo-European group of languages, a family of 445 related languages and dialects, which includes the Sanskrit, Old Church Slavonic, Lithuanian, Old Armenian, Latin, Greek, Old Irish, Albanian, Germanic, which got combined to form Old English, and a possible child of Cretan hieroglyphs, the Minoan civilization used the Linear A script, "the term "Minoan" refers to the mythic "king" Minos of Knossos; who first coined the term is debated," because it was part of the Menes/Minos dynasties who ruled most of the ancient world at a time, followed by the Mycenaean Greece with the Linear B script, that in turn evolved into Greek, and the numerous tamgi characters which formed the basis of the Glagolitic alphabet (Old Church Slavonic), and later, by way of the already established Greek alphabet, the Slavic Cyrillic writing system. al cohol is old Arabic for the mascara, eye liner, "or Kohl. Russell says, “The Persian women blacken the inside of their eyelids with a powder made of black Kohol.”And others mix the Kohol's jetty dye to give that long, dark languish to the eye."*1, also preserved "in olde Spanish, it means the thick eye-liner make-up women used to wear. "*2 *1 - http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/brewers/kohol.html *2 - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cohol (for some reason it is absent from the page)