Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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-square56fedilinkarrow-up1361file-textcross-posted to: map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
arrow-up1361imageTIL 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 year agomessage-square56fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 year agocuba has always been cuba?!
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoI’m guessing the Taino called it something else.
minus-squareZoboomafoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year 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 year ago either “great place” or “where fertile land is abundant” So…first impressions pretty positive?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoFWIW, this gives a somewhat different origin, although says it is derived from the local name. https://www.etymonline.com/word/Cuba
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoha, good point. i was just kinda shocked to see a legible ‘cuba’ and ‘florida’
minus-squareKaryoplasma@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoTerra florida means something like “land with many flowers” in Spanish.
minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoIIRC their word was something like “Kolba”
cuba has always been cuba?!
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”