The world is considering renaming United States on their maps. As the indigenous people discovered and explored the land thousands of years before the first Europeans, it’s fitting that they should do it. Many nations made up the area. Is there any name that would be representitive of all?

  • speculate7383@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    In English, it is Saint James.

    Strangely enough, both James and Diego are linguistic descendants of Jacob. Each has its own tortured history of pronunciation changes over the last 2 or 3 millennia.

    Yacob = Jacobus = Jacomus = James

    Yacob = Iago = Diego

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      7 days ago

      I had not idea jacob and james were related names. I mean obviously diego to but the jacob thing I thought it was just a different name.