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Is Somalia an Italian Word?

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Shirib » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:35 pm

SO- in old somali language and still in maay maay means hilib meat

MAAL- the etymology of this is to live off of

IA- Latin for land

So SO-MAAL means those who live off meat. Pastoralists and nomads.

SO-MAAL-IA: land of those who live off meat.

BI-MAAL: those who live off biyo water
DU-MAAL: Live off ur Dumashi
TU-MAAL: live of beating metal blacksmith

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Starscream » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:39 pm

[quote="Aliyah99"]Ok, I think we can safely say now that no-one should ever criticize SOMALILAND for having ingriis colonial name since SOMALIA is af Talyaani, a Roman Latin word.[/quote]


You can safely spit on your mother fool........


IndonesIA used to be called the Dutch Indies intil they fought for their independance and renamed their beloved new country Indonesia. Are you going to tell us that the Italians mysteriously found their way in that part of the world in that particular period and played a huge role in the IA of Indonesia?


Dumbass like advo said, pretend that you never asked this question.

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Qatar_isaaq_chick » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:40 pm

[quote="Shirib"]

IA- Latin for land
quote]

Well so it is a colonial name !

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Shirib » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:43 pm

[quote="Qatar_isaaq_chick"]Well so it is a colonial name ![/quote]

Cause they added an IA at the end. Well everything is "colonial" or "whiteman" made at the end. Saudi ArabIA

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Aliyah99 » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:47 pm

[quote="Starscream"][quote="Aliyah99"]Ok, I think we can safely say now that no-one should ever criticize SOMALILAND for having ingriis colonial name since SOMALIA is af Talyaani, a Roman Latin word.[/quote]


You can safely spit on your mother fool........


IndonesIA used to be called the Dutch Indies intil they fought for their independance and renamed their beloved new country Indonesia. Are you going to tell us that the Italians mysteriously found their way in that part of the world in that particular period and played a huge role in the IA of Indonesia?


Dumbass like advo said, pretend that you never asked this question.[/quote]

I'll spit on your love faqash mother instead how about that...

The suffix IA is LATIN = ROMAN = ITALIAN

Now fuck off ..and don't ever talk about somaliland colonial this and that!!

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Qatar_isaaq_chick » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:48 pm

[quote="Shirib"][quote="Qatar_isaaq_chick"]Well so it is a colonial name ![/quote]

Cause they added an IA at the end. Well everything is "colonial" or "whiteman" made at the end. Saudi ArabIA[/quote]

Yes then why denie it ..

wats with the hadle then ? saying Somalia is a somali word when it actually is in Latin !

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Shirib » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:49 pm

IA is the only latin, maybe we should call it Somalistan, then it won't be latin but will mean the same exact thing.

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Aliyah99 » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:50 pm

Qatar,

They can talk plenty about the LAND in Somaliland being of colonial origin but a discussion on the origin of the IA in Somalia disturbs people I wonder why??

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Shirib » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:52 pm

IA is a suffix used by many nations and isn't colonial. Countries that weren't colonized use IA at the end.

The colonial terms were

Italian SomaliLand
British SomaliLand
French SomaliLand.

Somalia was born in 1960.

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Qatar_isaaq_chick » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:52 pm

[quote="Aliyah99"]Qatar,

They can talk plenty about the LAND in Somaliland being of colonial origin but a discussion on the origin of the IA in Somalia disturbs people I wonder why??[/quote]

Jealousy makes people go high sometimes ..

Wa caadi to many unintelligent people in this forum ..

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Aliyah99 » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:02 pm

Shirib,

If it is Latin in origin (not Somali or Somaal as the somalis called themselves before colonialism)
Then how can anyone talk about Somaliland bearing a colonial foreign name?

Land (ingriis suffix)
IA (Latin suffix) neither are Somali in origin so how can they critisize??

The suffix land is also used in Scotland, Ireland, Nederland, Duetchland, Iceland!!

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Shirib » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:11 pm

^^^ Yes but Somalia was not the term used by the colonial while SomaliLand was. Somalia came in 1960, after the Italians and British left.

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby sheldibow » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:17 pm

No Somalia is not Italian word it is in English ... Somalia in Italian is "SOMALO" if you want to say in italian Iam in Somalia you say Io sono i Somalo ... and if you want to say Iam somali in italian is Io sono Somalo,
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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Aliyah99 » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:19 pm

[quote="Shirib"]^^^ Yes but Somalia was not the term used by the colonial while SomaliLand was. Somalia came in 1960, after the Italians and British left.[/quote]


^^ Yes but a Latin suffix was used to create the name in 1960, a foreign syntax that was conveniently native to the Italian colonialists. You can use any smokesceen you want, but both suffixes Land and IA are not somali in origin.

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Re: Is Somalia an Italian Word?

Postby Shirib » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:20 pm

[quote="Aliyah99"][quote="Shirib"]^^^ Yes but Somalia was not the term used by the colonial while SomaliLand was. Somalia came in 1960, after the Italians and British left.[/quote]


^^ Yes but a Latin suffix was used to create the name in 1960, a foreign syntax that was conveniently native to the Italian colonialists. You can use any smokesceen you want, but both suffixes Land and IA are not somali in origin.[/quote]

Ok if that makes u feel better


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