(December 2, 2019 at 1:43 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:I don't think your explanation for 'Zagreb' is correct.Why do you think it's incorrect?
BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Northern Ireland. The capital city is Belfast. In Irish it's Béal Feirste. Béal means 'rivermouth' and feirste means 'sandbar'.I thought Northern Ireland was a part of UK, rather than a state with a capital city.
Because there isn't anything I've been able to find that supports your explanation. 'Zagreb' appears to mean either 'hill' or 'to dig/scoop out' and is probably Hungarian in origin. It's almost certainly not Messapian.
Northern Ireland is part of the UK. It also has a capital city, which is called Belfast. The same is true of Wales (capital Cardiff) and Scotland (capital Edinburgh).
Boru
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