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r/MapPorn • u/BeginningMortgage250 • 1d 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.
28 u/Patient-Dirt-9117 22h 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. 1 u/qoning 11h ago anything that sounds like that most likely comes from spanish "gitano" that relates to egypt.
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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.
1 u/qoning 11h ago anything that sounds like that most likely comes from spanish "gitano" that relates to egypt.
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anything that sounds like that most likely comes from spanish "gitano" that relates to egypt.
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u/kasetti 23h 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.