What does your country's capital mean in your native language?
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What does your country's capital mean in your native language?
東京 is literally the capital of east.
>>59732396
Paris comes from the name of a local gallic tribe, the Parigis IIRC.
The romans called it Lugdunum, dont remember why.
Log island
Came from Londinium by the Romans, they may have taken the prefix from Celts, but no one knows for sure.
Merchant's Harbour.
>>59732396
>East
Compared to Kyoto?
"city of Warcisław/Warsz"
Save you some time OP
>>59732481
Lugdunum is Lyon you fuccboi
seat of the king
Downblouse.
No, seriously. Our capital is named after an aboriginal word for downblouse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra#Etymology
>>59732396
There's a fair bit of discussion on the subject, but the most probable explanation is that Oslo means something along the lines of "God's plain" or alternatively "the plain beneath the hill". Christiania, the old name, meant "King Christian's city".
>>59732481
>Lugdunum
I think that would be Lyon, actually.
Madrid is named after the Andalusian word "Magerit" Place of abundant water
>>59732787
>summary of the article: nobody has any idea what it really means
I could have sworn it was named after a colonial governor or something.
the name sounds anglo-saxon enough
>>59732396
It doesn't mean anything.
>>59732481
>Lugdunum
Lutetia
>>59732744
Omg, It says Kyoto is capital capital.
>>59732880
Fuck no it doesn't Vaclav
t. maintaining the purity of Anglo Saxon phonetics
>>59732731
That's right, why did you ask me?
