Lemizh / English dictionary

blUcnà.

to make African

blUcnàr. Africa

Etymology

< NLem blU‑can‑a, clarifying compound of
  NLem blU‑a ‘(North) Africa’
< LMLem libÙ‑yr
< Koi λιβύ‑η, derivation of
  Koi λίβυ‑ς ‘Libu (tribe in North Africa)’, of unknown origin
 —and—
  NLem can‑a ‘complete, all’
< LMLem, MLem can‑yr
< OLem shand‑ ‘win’
< PLem *sand‑ ‘succeed’, root aorist of
< PIE *seh₂dʰ‑

NLem blU‑a was homonymic with the old word for book – see wàtx. –, hence the clarifying compound.

See darawà. for some information on continents’ names.

Cognates

Eng Libya; Gk ἰθῡ́ς ‘straight, fair’