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Date: Mon, 13 May 91 00:41:26 CDT
Date: Sun May 12 22:48:37 EDT 1991
Subject: *** TIPP *** #318

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Felado : hollosi%helios.ucsc.edu@ucscc.ucsc.edu
Temakor: Hungarian roots of =America=   ( 17 sor )




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Felado : hollosi%helios.ucsc.edu@ucscc.ucsc.edu
Temakor: Hungarian roots of =America=   ( 17 sor )
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From: hjhrgovc@athena.mit.edu (Hrvoje J Hrgovcic)
Distribution: soc.culture.magyar

I hope the following bit of trivia isn't something
you've heard a hundred times alredy, and if it is,
I apologize.

   The word `America' comes from the Italian name
   Amerigo (after the `explorer' Amerigo Vespucci.) What is not
   generally known (at least in the US) is that
   Amerigo is the italicization of the Hungarian
   name Imre (I'm not sure if its exactly Imre, or an older form
   thereof---anyway, it's the saint's name.) In other words,
   `America' can etymologically be said to be a Hungarian word.


Hrvoje H.

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