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Originally Posted by Hio  America
1507, in Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller's treatise "Cosmographiae Introductio," from Mod.L. Americanus, after Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) who made two trips to the New World as a navigator and claimed to have discovered it. His published works put forward the idea that it was a new continent, and he was first to call it Novus Mundus "New World." Amerigo is more easily Latinized than Vespucci. The name Amerigo is Gmc., said to derive from Goth. Amalrich, lit. "work-ruler."
Try Latin and Goth...not Spanish | Well actually it was derived from St Emericus but in no way was it ever English..I wonder if Amergio spoke English?? How un-American if he didn't I say...
I'll be sure to let the people of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Fe and well about 2/3 of the country who live in States or places either of Native America, Spanish or Hawaiian descent your point
Last edited by Gadgetory; 09-19-2007 at 08:30 PM.
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