Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month 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.'lemmy.worldimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1346arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1342arrow-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.'lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square58fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareZoboomafoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 month 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-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month ago either “great place” or “where fertile land is abundant” So…first impressions pretty positive?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·1 month 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