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However, there are two other explanations I like:
1. Traditionally explained as from εὐρῠ́ς (EURŬ́S) "broad, wide" + ὤψ (ṒPS) "eye, face."
2. From a Semitic root meaning "west" and referring to the setting sun, related to Arabic مَغْرِب (MAḠRIB) and Hebrew מַעֲרָב (MA'ĂRĀV), both "west."
1. Traditionally explained as from εὐρῠ́ς (EURŬ́S) "broad, wide" + ὤψ (ṒPS) "eye, face."
2. From a Semitic root meaning "west" and referring to the setting sun, related to Arabic مَغْرِب (MAḠRIB) and Hebrew מַעֲרָב (MA'ĂRĀV), both "west."
May 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
However, there are two other explanations I like:
1. Traditionally explained as from εὐρῠ́ς (EURŬ́S) "broad, wide" + ὤψ (ṒPS) "eye, face."
2. From a Semitic root meaning "west" and referring to the setting sun, related to Arabic مَغْرِب (MAḠRIB) and Hebrew מַעֲרָב (MA'ĂRĀV), both "west."
1. Traditionally explained as from εὐρῠ́ς (EURŬ́S) "broad, wide" + ὤψ (ṒPS) "eye, face."
2. From a Semitic root meaning "west" and referring to the setting sun, related to Arabic مَغْرِب (MAḠRIB) and Hebrew מַעֲרָב (MA'ĂRĀV), both "west."
Εὐρώπη probably comes from a lost language spoken before Greek, based on placenames starting with EUROP- in Greece and Macedonia, which suggest an origin in a language spoken before Greek arrived in the Aegean basin 4000 years ago.
For more, read this article:
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For more, read this article:
www.robertbeekes.nl/wp-content/u...
www.robertbeekes.nl
May 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Εὐρώπη probably comes from a lost language spoken before Greek, based on placenames starting with EUROP- in Greece and Macedonia, which suggest an origin in a language spoken before Greek arrived in the Aegean basin 4000 years ago.
For more, read this article:
www.robertbeekes.nl/wp-content/u...
For more, read this article:
www.robertbeekes.nl/wp-content/u...
Latin POPULUS allegedly appears in the ancient Latin hymn Carmen Saliare in the plural form POPLOE (as PILUMNOE POPLOE "javelin-wielding people," in reference to the Romans), indicating an earlier singular form such as POPLOS. It may be of Etruscan origin.
May 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Latin POPULUS allegedly appears in the ancient Latin hymn Carmen Saliare in the plural form POPLOE (as PILUMNOE POPLOE "javelin-wielding people," in reference to the Romans), indicating an earlier singular form such as POPLOS. It may be of Etruscan origin.
www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/cearn...
www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/mac
www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/%C3%B3
Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.
www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/mac
www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/%C3%B3
Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.
April 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/cearn...
www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/mac
www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/%C3%B3
Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.
www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/mac
www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/%C3%B3
Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.