Alternate names for America?

[Diamond]

I thought this was alternate names for the United States.

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What are other names that America could've been given? (The continents, not the nation).

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[Tyr]

Gurps AE has Mikilyrland (Viking for "Greater Ireland") and Talentis.

Talentis?
Where is this derived from?
That sounds...familiar.

 

[Max Sinister]

Not sure, but ITTL America was discovered and colonized by Arabs.

 

[Wendell]

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I meant before I read the first post

 

[Count Dearborn]

La Merika is supposed to be the name that America comes from, at according to an article on Wikipedia.

 

[Admiral Matt]

Yet more evidence of wikipedia's inutility.

 

[Nicole]

Yet more evidence of wikipedia's inutility.

I don't know, the article doesn't outright proclaim that, it says it's a theory, and even has a rebuttal attached to the page. Or did you not even bother to look at wikipedia and just felt like condemning it?

 

[Admiral Matt]

The latter.

Very much so.

 

[Condottiero]

As for the argentinian humour group Les Luthiers, it should be Rodrigombia as it was discovered by Don Rodrigo Dias de Carreras before Don Cristobal.

 

[Smaug]

Borealia and Australia, what else?

Fair enough names. a bit of concession, but they do both fit, according to latin, which is argueably the scientific language.

 

[Berus]

What are other names that America could've been given? (The continents, not the nation).

Braseal: The celtic name.

Hesperia?

Al-gharb (Arabic for the west)?

What else?

celtic name ? i am interested, can anyone explain more ?

 

[Kishan]

Anahuac for North America, Tawantinsuyo for South America

Right. Anahuac or Aztlan for North America and Tawantinsuyu for South America are the most suitable names.

 

[wietze]

ah good ole necromancing

if it would have been named after st Brendan maybe Brendinium

or welsh orllewin tir

 

[Amedras]

Talentis?
Where is this derived from?
That sounds...familiar.

From the Caliph TL. I'm guessing it's SJG's attempt at a backformation from at-Talantis. (FWIW, the "Frankish" quarter of North America in that world was called Braseal.)

 

[CalBear]

celtic name ? i am interested, can anyone explain more ?

SIX and a HALF YEARS?

66 MONTHS?

This thread wasn't dead, it was decomposed.

Don't do this.