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[–] Kittywumpus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Fun fact - Pennsylvania is named that because it was owned by some white guy (Penn) who owned a literal state sized chunk of woods (Sylvan-ia) permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lauha@lemmy.one 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Does the name have anything to do with transilvania? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Kittywumpus@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I’m no etymologist and that’s like a factoid I know, but Sylvan/silvan means woods I believe? Could be related 🤷♂️ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lauha@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago From Wikipedia: The earliest known reference to Transylvania appears in a Medieval Latin document of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1078 as ultra silvam, meaning "beyond the forest" (ultra meaning "beyond" or "on the far side of" and the accusative case of Sylva (sylvam) "woods, forest"). Transylvania, with an alternative Latin prepositional prefix, means "on the other side of the woods". The Medieval Latin form Ultrasylvania, later Transylvania, was a direct translation from the Hungarian form Erdő-elve, later Erdély, from which also the Romanian name, Ardeal, comes. That also was used as an alternative name in German überwald ("beyond the forest") (13th–14th centuries) and Ukrainian Залісся (Zalissia). So it seems to be permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lauha@lemmy.one 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Does the name have anything to do with transilvania? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Kittywumpus@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I’m no etymologist and that’s like a factoid I know, but Sylvan/silvan means woods I believe? Could be related 🤷♂️ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lauha@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago From Wikipedia: The earliest known reference to Transylvania appears in a Medieval Latin document of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1078 as ultra silvam, meaning "beyond the forest" (ultra meaning "beyond" or "on the far side of" and the accusative case of Sylva (sylvam) "woods, forest"). Transylvania, with an alternative Latin prepositional prefix, means "on the other side of the woods". The Medieval Latin form Ultrasylvania, later Transylvania, was a direct translation from the Hungarian form Erdő-elve, later Erdély, from which also the Romanian name, Ardeal, comes. That also was used as an alternative name in German überwald ("beyond the forest") (13th–14th centuries) and Ukrainian Залісся (Zalissia). So it seems to be permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kittywumpus@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I’m no etymologist and that’s like a factoid I know, but Sylvan/silvan means woods I believe? Could be related 🤷♂️ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lauha@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago From Wikipedia: The earliest known reference to Transylvania appears in a Medieval Latin document of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1078 as ultra silvam, meaning "beyond the forest" (ultra meaning "beyond" or "on the far side of" and the accusative case of Sylva (sylvam) "woods, forest"). Transylvania, with an alternative Latin prepositional prefix, means "on the other side of the woods". The Medieval Latin form Ultrasylvania, later Transylvania, was a direct translation from the Hungarian form Erdő-elve, later Erdély, from which also the Romanian name, Ardeal, comes. That also was used as an alternative name in German überwald ("beyond the forest") (13th–14th centuries) and Ukrainian Залісся (Zalissia). So it seems to be permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lauha@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago From Wikipedia: The earliest known reference to Transylvania appears in a Medieval Latin document of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1078 as ultra silvam, meaning "beyond the forest" (ultra meaning "beyond" or "on the far side of" and the accusative case of Sylva (sylvam) "woods, forest"). Transylvania, with an alternative Latin prepositional prefix, means "on the other side of the woods". The Medieval Latin form Ultrasylvania, later Transylvania, was a direct translation from the Hungarian form Erdő-elve, later Erdély, from which also the Romanian name, Ardeal, comes. That also was used as an alternative name in German überwald ("beyond the forest") (13th–14th centuries) and Ukrainian Залісся (Zalissia). So it seems to be permalink fedilink source parent
