Blaze@reddthat.com to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 6 months agoWhat 16th century Ottomans thought Europe looked like on top of an actual map of Europefiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1341
arrow-up1341imageWhat 16th century Ottomans thought Europe looked like on top of an actual map of Europefiles.catbox.moeBlaze@reddthat.com to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoHow’d that get its name? It sounds almost like a corruption of French “acheter mer” (“to buy sea”).
minus-squareSuccessful_Try543@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-26 months agoAchter means in a local sense ‘at the back’ or ‘behind’ and meer means either ‘more’ or means ‘sea’ (e.g. IJsselmeer). So it referrs to either “more land behind” the city of Alkmaar or or a sea behind the city.
minus-squareBashnagdul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoLake, meer means lake. Achtermeer is best translated as back lake, or behind lake. Assuming achter in this case is used as this. It could also mean the lake of Acht. Since Acht could also be the name of a location. See Markermeer.
minus-squareSuccessful_Try543@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months agoTY. Funny how German and Dutch switch meaning here: meer – der See zee – das Meer, die See.
minus-squareBob@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoAchter is like aft or after (as in behind); meer is like mere (as in a lake). Aftermere would be an English bastardisation of the name.
How’d that get its name? It sounds almost like a corruption of French “acheter mer” (“to buy sea”).
Achter means in a local sense ‘at the back’ or ‘behind’ and meer means either ‘more’ or means ‘sea’ (e.g. IJsselmeer).
So it referrs to either “more land behind” the city of Alkmaar or or a sea behind the city.
Lake, meer means lake. Achtermeer is best translated as back lake, or behind lake. Assuming achter in this case is used as this. It could also mean the lake of Acht. Since Acht could also be the name of a location. See Markermeer.
TY. Funny how German and Dutch switch meaning here:
Achter is like aft or after (as in behind); meer is like mere (as in a lake). Aftermere would be an English bastardisation of the name.