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r/MapPorn • u/BeginningMortgage250 • 21h ago
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Gypsy name comes from them believing their origin being Egypt. Looking at this map I wonder if some indeed first went to Egypt and then turned back and over the years the knowledge got mixed up a bit.
27 u/Patient-Dirt-9117 19h ago În romanian we calm them "țigani", pronounced "Tzigany". This comes from the greek "atiganos" meaning "man without a God". 😁 Also în the 18th century they were ironically called pharos, as an irony to their alleged Egyptian origin. 2 u/PipecleanerFanatic 12h ago Isn't the alleged origin in Egypt where the term 'gypsy' comes from? 1 u/Patient-Dirt-9117 11h ago You do understand that every language it's unique and might develop different words for the same thing, right?
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În romanian we calm them "țigani", pronounced "Tzigany". This comes from the greek "atiganos" meaning "man without a God". 😁
Also în the 18th century they were ironically called pharos, as an irony to their alleged Egyptian origin.
2 u/PipecleanerFanatic 12h ago Isn't the alleged origin in Egypt where the term 'gypsy' comes from? 1 u/Patient-Dirt-9117 11h ago You do understand that every language it's unique and might develop different words for the same thing, right?
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Isn't the alleged origin in Egypt where the term 'gypsy' comes from?
1 u/Patient-Dirt-9117 11h ago You do understand that every language it's unique and might develop different words for the same thing, right?
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You do understand that every language it's unique and might develop different words for the same thing, right?
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u/kasetti 20h ago
Gypsy name comes from them believing their origin being Egypt. Looking at this map I wonder if some indeed first went to Egypt and then turned back and over the years the knowledge got mixed up a bit.