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no, that’s a false friend etymology. https://www.etymonline.com/word/barber https://www.etymonline.com/word/barber “barbarian” is onomatopoeic for “people who
by hprotagonist 4y ago
no, that’s a false friend etymology.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/barber https://www.etymonline.com/word/barber
“barbarian” is onomatopoeic for “people who talk like bar bar bar bar and aren’t greek”. the (themselves barbarian) romans adopted the term.
- bashmelek 4y agoOne notable “barbarian” group would be the Berbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers whose name might actually be derived from the Greek word for barbarian.