What do these three towns have in common?
"Dublin", "Blackpool", "Chernobyl".
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"Dublin", "Blackpool", "Chernobyl".
All three of them
have the first part of their name meaning "black". ("Dublin" literally means "black pool"; "Chernobyl" literally means "black grass".)
If you allow for some creative linguistics, they all have
very similar names.
Dublin
comes from the Gaelic "dubh linn", meaning “black pool”
and Chernobyl
while meaning "common wormwood", or "mugwort", comes from two parts:
- "cherno" (from chornyi, "black") and
- "byl" (from bylia, "grass"), which sounds a bit like "pool".