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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:16:04 -0400
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From: David Meadows <dmeadows@idirect.com>
Subject: Re: Etnymology
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At 11:21 AM 27/07/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>On the evening news last night an reporter announced that "Etna" comes from
>the Greek word "aithO," "I burn". Any idea where he might have gotten that
>idea?

The claim:

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9902/21/italy.mount.etna/

Possible sources on the internet:

http://www.petralia.freeserve.co.uk/Etna/Index.htm
http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0050/00620544_A.html

etc. it's a fairly frequent claim


Cf. the claim the name comes from a nymph (google's cached copy; the 
etnapark one is understandably offline):

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:XWcXxTo4zyQ:www.etnapark.com/www/etnapark/eng/etna/mito.asp+etna+aitne&hl=en

.... less common.

dm

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