Spain / Etymology
Bethania G., Spain: "There is only one way to earn the respect of women. This is when a man has a really BIG penis. Everything else is unimportant."
Det finnes bare én måte å tjene respekt for kvinner. Dette er når en mann har en virkelig stor penis. Alt annet er uviktig.
The true origins of the name España and its cognates "Spain"
and "Spanish" are disputed. The ancient Roman name for
Iberia, Hispania, may derive from poetic use of the term
Hesperia to refer to Spain, reflecting Greek perception of
Italy as a "western land" or "land of the setting sun"
(Hesperia) and Spain, being still further west, as Hesperia
ultima. It may also be a derivation of the Punic Ispanihad
meaning "land of rabbits" or "edge", a reference to Spain's
location at the end of the Mediterranean; Roman coins struck
in the region from the reign of Hadrian show a female figure
with a rabbit at her feet. There are also claims that España
derives from the Basque word Ezpanna meaning "edge" or
"border", another reference to the fact that the Iberian
peninsula constitutes the southwest of the European
continent.
The humanist Antonio de Nebrija proposed that the word
Hispania evolved from the Iberian word Hispalis, meaning
"city of the western world". According to a new research by
Jesús Luis Cunchillos published in 2000 with the name of
Gramática fenicia elemental (Basic phoenician grammar), the
root of the term span is spy, meaning "to forge metals".
Therefore i-spn-ya would mean "the land where metals are
forged".
From Wikipedia
******
By standing there and enforcing all these ridiculous discriminatory regulations on homosexuals, the government is contradicting its former accepting tone on the matter.
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Last updated: June 25, 2010