Arab or Semitic Words in the European Languages

[Alika Mazin]

ANDID + ANGRY NEGRITO!!! BAHAHAHA!!!

[blondbeast]

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Please classify me!

[Alika Mazin]

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Please classify me!

Spoiler!

ANDID + ANGRY NEGRITO!!! BAHAHAHA!!!

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Europe

Your best evidence says 'possibly' Semitic.

Latinized form of Greek Ευρωπη (Europe), which meant "wide face" from ευρυς (eurys) "wide" and ωψ (ops) "face, eye". In Greek mythology Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted and taken to Crete by Zeus in the guise of a bull. She became the first queen of Crete, and later fathered Minos by Zeus. The continent of Europe is named for her. This is also the name of a moon of Jupiter.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/europa

My crappy source is better than your crappy source.

[Wadaad]

yeah...wide face makes alot of sense.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

yeah...wide face makes alot of sense.

I don't pretend to know what would or would not make sense to people who lived over two thousand years ago. You make a fundamental error when you start projecting what makes sense to you to people who lived in a very different world to your own.

[Wadaad]

I don't pretend to know what would or would not make sense to people who lived over two thousand years ago. You make a fundamental error when you start projecting what makes sense to you to people who lived in a very different world to your own.

"west" makes sense...Phoenicians were in the levant. Levantine Arabs called North Africa "the Maghreb" for the same reason.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

"west" makes sense...Phoenicians were in the levant. Levantine Arabs called North Africa "the Maghreb" for the same reason.

How would "west" make sense if Phoenicians lived east of Greeks? Europa is a Phoenician character within a Greek mythological world. It's not a Greek character in a Phoenician mythological world.

[Wadaad]

How would "west" make sense if Phoenicians lived east of Greeks? Europa is a Phoenician character within a Greek mythological world. It's not a Greek character in a Phoenician mythological world.

She is a Phoenician that ended up in a Western Landmass relative to her native Sidon due to Zeus's kidnapping. In the etiology of 'place names' it's common to name a place referencing its geographic location relative to an original, benchmark location. "Middle East" is so only from a European vantage, and has a European etiology.

"Europe" ('-r-b) ...the West" is so only from a vantage point east of Greece...(like say, Phoenicia) and thus the semitic hypothesis for its origin makes as much sense as "the Middle East" being an English invented place name.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

She is a Phoenician that ended up in a Western Landmass relative to her native Sidon due to Zeus's kidnapping. In the etiology of 'place names' it's common to name a place referencing its geographic location relative to an original, benchmark location. "Middle East" is so only from a European vantage, and has a European etiology.

"Europe" ('-r-b) ...the West" is so only from a vantage point east of Greece...(like say, Phoenicia)

But it's not Phoenicians naming her... It's Greeks naming her. She's a character in Greek mythology. She's not a character in Phoenician mythology. You do realize this is a fictional character, right? Your example proves my point: Middle East. The character would be eastern from a Greek vantage. So the name can't be based on a Phoenician word for west (using your reasoning).