10-01-2024, 08:29 PM
(08-02-2024, 01:43 PM)Karl12 Wrote: Anyone any thoughts on this one?The Crimean Khanate captured slaves in Central Europe and sold them to the Ottomans and their barbary allies.
The least obedient ones may have been sold far downriver to West Central Africa. It may be that the ones who got sold furthest down river are still calling themselves "the disobedient nation."
The Lithuanian word for "the not good or disobedient people" would be the ne geri. If you added the suffix for a nation, it would be Negerija or "ne" as in net, "ge" as in get, "REE" as in repeat, and "ya" as in yup or yuk without the p or the k. (There is no soft g sound in the central European J.)
The official version has an English colonial administrator's wife coining the word Nigeria in 1897 after the Latin word for black. But it may not be so.
The Lithuanian word for "to play music" is "grot" which sounds at least a little reminiscent of the African word for traveling, news-bearing minstrels which is "griot."
