• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I mean it's like 8000 years in the future.

    Idaho is a name made up to sound like an indigenous phrase meaning "gem of the mountains". it doesn't, of course, but people thought it did.

    if we're extremely lucky, human cultures will give names like Duncan Idaho and not like Pepsi Bennigans.

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Holy crap - Idaho is probably from a word meaning enemy.

      Idaho

      1861 as a place name, originally applied by U.S. Congress to a proposed territorial division centered in what is now eastern Colorado; said at the time to mean "Gem of the Mountains" but probably rather from Kiowa-Apache (Athabaskan) idaahe "enemy," a name applied by them to the Comanches. Modern Idaho was organized 1861 as a county in Washington Territory; in 1863 became a territory in its own right and it was admitted as a state in 1890.