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The very name Yucatan is derived from "uic aithan" – the phrase spoken to the Spanish conquistadors by the Maya when asked what their land was called: it means "what do you say, we do not understand you".
[From Lost Languages by Andrew Robinson, 2002]
Previously [before 1587] Virginia had been called "Windgancon", meaning "What gay clothes you wear" – apparently what the locals had replied when asked what they called this place.
[From Made in America by Bill Bryson, 1994]
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