Yeah, looks like the name is old too, the Celt's name for the river, deouan (Celts really like their vowels) but the prefix Aber is interesting because there's a note in there that says someone named Boxhorn thought it could be Phoenician, but the wiki calls this unlikely, so with anything Phoenician, there's a definite historical pattern of erasing them from history, so I checked the citation and its not about Phoenicians, the wikipedia writer wrote that as an opinion based on nothing but their own belief that Phoenicians were never there. Boxhorn apparently thought they were, so now I gotta look up this guy Boxhorn. Also the citation leads to a scanned copy of a book printed in 1859 about etymology in named places. (Fuckin SCORE). Check this shit out:
AFFGHANISTAN the stan or country of the Affghans, who claim to be descendants of the Jews of the Babylonish captivity.
Babylonish Affghans. Doesn't get better than the 1800s, earlier than that and shit can get difficult to read.
This book predates all the historical censorship that happened post WW1.
Yeah, looks like the name is old too, the Celt's name for the river, deouan (Celts really like their vowels) but the prefix Aber is interesting because there's a note in there that says someone named Boxhorn thought it could be Phoenician, but the wiki calls this unlikely, so with anything Phoenician, there's a definite historical pattern of erasing them from history, so I checked the citation and its not about Phoenicians, the wikipedia writer wrote that as an opinion based on nothing but their own belief that Phoenicians were never there. Boxhorn apparently thought they were, so now I gotta look up this guy Boxhorn. Also the citation leads to a scanned copy of a book printed in 1859 about etymology in named places. (Fuckin SCORE). Check this shit out:
AFFGHANISTAN the stan or country of the Affghans, who claim to be descendants of the Jews of the Babylonish captivity.
Babylonish Affghans. Doesn't get better than the 1800s, earlier than that and shit can get difficult to read.
This book predates all the historical censorship that happened post WW1.
https://archive.org/details/localetymologya01chargoog/page/n12/mode/2up