Flying Squid to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 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.'lemmy.worldimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1361arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
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.'lemmy.worldFlying Squid to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square58fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
minus-squareFlying SquidOPlinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoI’m guessing the Taino called it something else.
minus-square@Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglish14•2 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_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months ago either “great place” or “where fertile land is abundant” So…first impressions pretty positive?
minus-squareFlying SquidOPlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoFWIW, this gives a somewhat different origin, although says it is derived from the local name. https://www.etymonline.com/word/Cuba
minus-squareoriginaluciferlinkfedilink6•2 months agoha, good point. i was just kinda shocked to see a legible ‘cuba’ and ‘florida’
minus-squareKaryoplasmalinkfedilinkEnglish7•2 months agoTerra florida means something like “land with many flowers” in Spanish.
minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkinlinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months agoIIRC their word was something like “Kolba”
I’m guessing the Taino called it something else.
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
ha, good point. i was just kinda shocked to see a legible ‘cuba’ and ‘florida’
Terra florida means something like “land with many flowers” in Spanish.
IIRC their word was something like “Kolba”