From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 23:04:40 CEST
On Mon, May 12, 2036 at 07:38:49PM -0400, corey . eiseman nicely wrote:
> > "talassa" is greek mean "sea" or similar. This city is on the sea?
>
> not really, we're about an hour or so north of the Gulf of Mexico coast.
>
> From what I know, "Tallahassee" is an Apalachee Indian word which means
> something like "abandoned fields" or "old town".
Therefore, only a coincidence. There is a lot of english words
with similar radix, all from biology:
thalassemia,thalassocrat, ...
For example: thalassographic means oceanography.
Oh, mon dieu: A false (apalachee) friend!
Michele
P.S.
A read a booklet, recently, about language diffusion on the world and
maybe not surprising if some Indian word, coming from Asia throught Alaska,
still remains in some form.
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