Flying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 3 months agoTIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.'imagemessage-square58arrow-up1361arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1356arrow-down1imageTIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.'Flying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square58file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•3 months agoLooks like they called it Cuba Cuba - It is derived from either coabana meaning “great place,” or from cubao meaning “where fertile land is abundant”.
minus-square@Viking_HippielinkEnglish6•3 months ago either “great place” or “where fertile land is abundant” So…first impressions pretty positive?
minus-squareFlying SquidOPlinkEnglish3•3 months agoFWIW, this gives a somewhat different origin, although says it is derived from the local name. https://www.etymonline.com/word/Cuba
Looks like they called it Cuba
Cuba - It is derived from either coabana meaning “great place,” or from cubao meaning “where fertile land is abundant”.
So…first impressions pretty positive?
FWIW, this gives a somewhat different origin, although says it is derived from the local name.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Cuba