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Re: Please help me find out what these name mean and where they come from????
Mesopotamia is not a river, but a region. The name means between rivers and I believe potam is the "river" part, not tamia
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The Greek word for "river" is "potamos", and of course someone may have had the idea of cutting off the "mesopo" part. But I'd rather try some TAM- names; this site has TAMIA as a short or of TAMAR(A), which sounds quite convincing to me. Andy ;—)
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