and another thing

A group of 5 of us - me, Jessi, George, Claire and Jenny - went by cab to the Dictaean cave at Psychro on the Lassithi plain, which is a beautiful, fertile plain full of agriculture and domestic animals and windmills, surrounded by mountains several thousand feet high. The drive was dramatic as we went up into the mountains and were covered in thick, drifting mist. I asked the driver if it was always like this with the mist and he said not, but in my broken Greek, I called it a nephos (whcih I knew wasn't quite right but was all I could think of at the time) and he corrected me to omichle, a word that I am pretty sure exists in Homer and means just the same thing. How many other languages have words exactly the same that have been in use for almost 3000 years? (And nephos, as I discovered later to my slight embarrassment, means smog as well as cloud, so no wonder he wanted to set the record straight!)