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Wikipedia has a good explanation of the etymology: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(region)#Etymology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(region)#Ety
by dogruck 9y ago
Wikipedia has a good explanation of the etymology: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(region)#Etymology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(region)#Etymology
Summary: It comes from an old Portuguese word for a subset of dark skinned North African people.