Niger: Difference between revisions

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Noun [Cite]

Declension

Alternative forms:

Nigerium

Etymology:

Commonly linked by folk etymology to Latin niger (“black”), which likely influenced the modern spelling.
Some sources give the term to Tuareg roots, deriving it from a claimed gher n-gheren or ì-ɡərw-ɑn.
Older sources derive Niger, via a series of mistranslations and geographic misplacements by Greek, Roman and Arab geographers, from Ptolemy's descriptions of the wadi Gir (in modern Algeria) and the "Lower Gir" (or "Ni-Gir") to the south (which may both derive from the same source as ì-ɡərw-ɑn).

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Noun [Cite]

(Classical) IPA^(key): /reːs ˈpuː.bli.ka ni.ɡriːˈtaː.na/, [reːs̠ ˈpuːblʲɪkä nɪɡriːˈt̪äːnä]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /res ˈpu.bli.ka ni.ɡriˈta.na/, [rɛs ˈpuːblikä niɡriˈt̪äːnä]

Meaning:

Long form of Nigrītānia

Declension

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 |Etymology = * Commonly linked by folk etymology to Latin ''niger'' (“black”), which likely influenced the modern spelling.
 * Some sources give the term to Tuareg roots, deriving it from a claimed ''gher n-gheren'' or ''ì-ɡərw-ɑn''.
-Older sources derive Niger, via a series of mistranslations and geographic misplacements by Greek, Roman and Arab geographers, from Ptolemy's descriptions of the wadi Gir (in modern Algeria) and the "Lower Gir" (or "Ni-Gir") to the south (which may both derive from the same source as ì-ɡərw-ɑn).
+* Older sources derive Niger, via a series of mistranslations and geographic misplacements by Greek, Roman and Arab geographers, from Ptolemy's descriptions of the wadi Gir (in modern Algeria) and the "Lower Gir" (or "Ni-Gir") to the south (which may both derive from the same source as ì-ɡərw-ɑn).
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