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Wibbs · 02-01-2020 5:24pm

Deja Boo wrote: »

Literal Translation of Country Names here

For Europe:

Ireland is a dubious one. It likely comes from Eriu, a pre Celtic goddess, or an even older word for water, so Eriuland or Waterland. Other names for the place were Scotia, where Scotland gets its name as the two places and peoples were regularly connected, so Scotland might be translated as "Irishland". Hibernia is another one, "Winterland".

Wales is dubious. IIRC it's an old classical world word for extreme western tribes, not very specific, like how they described "Celts". I suppose you could argue that it also meant "foreign" to the classical mind, but that would be damned near every peoples beyond the empire, so a bit of a stretch.

France is a stretch too. It's the land of the Franks, fierce has nada to do with it.

Poor_old_gill · 02-01-2020 5:57pm

Wibbs wrote: »

Ireland is a dubious one. It likely comes from Eriu, a pre Celtic goddess, or an even older word for water, so Eriuland or Waterland. Other names for the place were Scotia, where Scotland gets its name as the two places and peoples were regularly connected, so Scotland might be translated as "Irishland". Hibernia is another one, "Winterland".

Wales is dubious. IIRC it's an old classical world word for extreme western tribes, not very specific, like how they described "Celts". I suppose you could argue that it also meant "foreign" to the classical mind, but that would be damned near every peoples beyond the empire, so a bit of a stretch.

France is a stretch too. It's the land of the Franks, fierce has nada to do with it.

As is Austria - fairly sure the English is just a take on Osterreich which means Eastern kingdom

Ipso · 02-01-2020 7:42pm

Wibbs wrote: »

Ireland is a dubious one. It likely comes from Eriu, a pre Celtic goddess, or an even older word for water, so Eriuland or Waterland. Other names for the place were Scotia, where Scotland gets its name as the two places and peoples were regularly connected, so Scotland might be translated as "Irishland". Hibernia is another one, "Winterland".

Wales is dubious. IIRC it's an old classical world word for extreme western tribes, not very specific, like how they described "Celts". I suppose you could argue that it also meant "foreign" to the classical mind, but that would be damned near every peoples beyond the empire, so a bit of a stretch.

France is a stretch too. It's the land of the Franks, fierce has nada to do with it.

Apparently fierce is a possible origin for the term Frank.
Wales comes from a Germanic word for foreigner/other (the endonym Cymru means fellow country men and is the basis for names like Cumbria, Cambria and Cambridge). Wal was also used for Cornwall , where the meaning is horn/headland of the foreigner (endonym Kernow where kern means horn/point).
Gaul seems to come from the same root, the Irish word Gall for foreigner originally referred to Gauls and then widened to include others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walhaz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul

Deja Boo · 02-01-2020 7:51pm

A buffet of maps on the World of Food

Deja Boo · 02-01-2020 8:08pm

An interactive world hum map, anyone ??? :rolleyes:

greenttc · 02-01-2020 8:18pm

COuntries donald trump has tweeted about

Pagan Population

loads and loads more great maps like this on https://worldmapper.org/

(a strange two to pick and put together but i couldnt get others to work!)

Wibbs · 02-01-2020 8:24pm

Ipso wrote: »

Apparently fierce is a possible origin for the term Frank.
Wales comes from a Germanic word for foreigner/other (the endonym Cymru means fellow country men and is the basis for names like Cumbria, Cambria and Cambridge). Wal was also used for Cornwall , where the meaning is horn/headland of the foreigner (endonym Kernow where kern means horn/point).
Gaul seems to come from the same root, the Irish word Gall for foreigner originally referred to Gauls and then widened to include others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walhaz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul

Still dubious for Wales, or at least debatable. From the wiki you linked: Walhaz is almost certainly derived from the name of the tribe which was known to the Romans as Volcae I clicked on the Wales link in the same wiki and got: The English words "Wales" and "Welsh" derive from the same Old English root (singular Wealh, plural Wēalas), a descendant of Proto-Germanic *Walhaz, which was itself derived from the name of the Gaulish people known to the Romans as Volcae and which came to refer indiscriminately to inhabitants of the Western Roman Empire

So much more after a tribe the Classical world(as usual) used vaguely and indiscriminately depending on the times for people and places that were "over there". Sure it also has some connotation of "other", but that would go for many descriptions like Celt. Oddly enough though they sound the same and have a load of overlap historically and geographically Gaul in the classical world is a different word to the later version of Gaul. The latter comes from the Germanic alright IIRC, but the original is named after a tribe(again fairly vaguely depending on writers) the Galli(sp) or similar. Galatian and Galicia have the same root.

And Frank for fierce is well dubious. It might have a link to a protoceltic word for sword or spear, or weapon? But...

Quantum Erasure · 02-01-2020 8:36pm

greenttc wrote: »

Pagan Population

(a strange two to pick and put together but i couldnt get others to work!)

from the link

Mapped here are people called by the World Christian Database ‘Ethnoreligionists’, defined as ‘A collective term for primal or primitive religionists, animists, spirit-worshippers, shamanists, ancestor-venerators, polytheists, pantheists, traditionalists (in Africa), local or tribal folk-religionists; including adherents of neo-paganism or non-Christian local or tribal syncretistic or nativistic movements, cargo cults, witchcraft eradication cults, possession healing movements, tribal messianic movements; still occasionally termed pagans, heathen, fetishists; usually confined each to a single tribe or people, hence tribal or local as opposed to ‘universal’ (open to any or all peoples).’

they must include Hinduism in that under 'polytheists'? wouldn't think India would be so big otherwise

Scarinae · 03-01-2020 4:57pm

'Water' in European languages

Wibbs · 03-01-2020 5:01pm

I love Basque. Fcuk you indoeuropean languages.

Ipso · 03-01-2020 5:07pm

They like their vodka in Russia.

Ipso · 03-01-2020 5:11pm

smacl · 03-01-2020 6:39pm

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Ptolemy's map of Hibernia c.140AD

At least he got it the right way up, unlike Gerardus Mercator

The original is brilliant as you can pick of all the place names on the east coast which become clan names on the west coast and less populated areas. Used to be a nice online version but can't seem to find it.

Ipso · 03-01-2020 6:46pm

Looks like he never got through Barnes Gap in Donegal!

Speaking of Ireland flipped around.
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03-01-2020 7:27pm

Bambi wrote: »

We should make Langos here, bates a breakfast roll into a cocked hat

The one that looks like someone vomited on a pizza base? I’ll stick to the sausages and black pudding thanks.

03-01-2020 7:28pm

Deja Boo wrote: »

A buffet of maps on the World of Food

That’s excellent, but Gur cake?

smacl · 03-01-2020 8:03pm

Old map of internet social media from 2010, alas no boards.ie :pac:

Victor · 03-01-2020 8:13pm

smacl wrote: »

Old map of internet social media from 2010, alas no boards.ie :pac:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_communities_2.png

There have been different versions of the map and boards.ie was on at least one.

https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZit7Znj0WM58UK0FHGKUmldTtHh1YMk_1Vw8LDJCYtjkjn0R73wVY97A9YQkus7w5Z5qquMOktEK_13PvyfSQmP7LAWGpF8d_1Xfmw28r3U9R7x0VcUQwqApaezJnnKzWG-48V9RjRDUFsyO0n_1E26smuTp9k55dv43ladl1EJ8LOLNGDtUiPyC1vJ9XOswVVBn5s0wTCjPzsJFvtUjG7xwy03nqlFo5QdTM1E9NoLG34HMV0deY3WBH08YDKxrp6o53C1zfiAqRp0D96uS_1zZQbsR5lS4Fmi9As0eUlTTGXnzRkR-DIzikKwwyoHmt3yt_1q6lNYeis05l4CDhqhgo2JLnFafBUbA

Esel · 03-01-2020 8:30pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

That’s excellent, but Gur cake?

Were you never 'out on gur' as a kid?

03-01-2020 8:32pm

Esel wrote: »

Were you never 'out on gur' as a kid?

Only time I ever heard the phrase ‘on gur’ was describing the dog going out on the prowl when there was a bitch on heat locally.

What’s the cake? I have never heard of it.

Esel · 03-01-2020 8:35pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Only time I ever heard the phrase ‘on gur’ was describing the dog going out on the prowl when there was a bitch on heat locally.

What’s the cake? I have never heard of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gur_cake

03-01-2020 8:41pm

Never seen it before. I got as far as dried fruits - no thanks.

Deja Boo · 04-01-2020 4:25am

Hogzy · 04-01-2020 5:11pm

Map showing all the different languages spoken in Africa and where theyre spoken. Sorry for the large image size.

mikhail · 04-01-2020 7:27pm

Hogzy wrote: »

Map showing all the different languages spoken in Africa and where theyre spoken. Sorry for the large image size.

This is from memory, and might be a little rough in detail, but the Niger-Congo group is often called the Bantu language group. Bantu farmers were iron age farmers, and their superior tools and agricultural practices spread relatively quickly across sub-Saharan Africa and their language with them. Iron smelting is pretty wood-hungry, so they also spread a wave of deforestation, but that had the side effect of suppressing the tsetse fly's natural habitats. That, in turn, allowed the spread of cattle farming, but cattle are very vulnerable to the tsetse fly.

Cattle became a huge status symbol in many African cultures, which is one reason the rinderpest outbreak in the 1890s killing 95% of all the cattle on the continent was so devastating.

Scarinae · 05-01-2020 10:20pm

owlbethere · 05-01-2020 10:22pm

The Snapchat maps are great

Flying Abruptly · 06-01-2020 11:40am

smacl wrote: »

Old map of internet social media from 2010, alas no boards.ie :pac:

Victor wrote: »

There have been different versions of the map and boards.ie was on at least one.

https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZit7Znj0WM58UK0FHGKUmldTtHh1YMk_1Vw8LDJCYtjkjn0R73wVY97A9YQkus7w5Z5qquMOktEK_13PvyfSQmP7LAWGpF8d_1Xfmw28r3U9R7x0VcUQwqApaezJnnKzWG-48V9RjRDUFsyO0n_1E26smuTp9k55dv43ladl1EJ8LOLNGDtUiPyC1vJ9XOswVVBn5s0wTCjPzsJFvtUjG7xwy03nqlFo5QdTM1E9NoLG34HMV0deY3WBH08YDKxrp6o53C1zfiAqRp0D96uS_1zZQbsR5lS4Fmi9As0eUlTTGXnzRkR-DIzikKwwyoHmt3yt_1q6lNYeis05l4CDhqhgo2JLnFafBUbA

Boards.ie is there in the bottom left of the forums part

Duckworth_Luas · 06-01-2020 1:36pm

Dyr · 06-01-2020 2:48pm

Up to no good as usual.

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