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  • did anyone say indian yet? from the indusriver agate stones were either named for a river in sicily they were found by, or the river was named forthem pheasant comes from the phasis river flowing into the black sea at colchis rosemary may have its original name “rosmarine” from a proto-indoeuropean word which also became, rha, the scythian name for the volgariver.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Rivers and Words: 2009

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