[lbo-talk] Greece, was Re: Bar-bar-bar Barian (Was Re: Cockeyed Optimism)

[Andy]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> By the way, can somebody tell me where the hell the word Graeci (Greeks) comes from? It doesn't sound remotely like "Hellenes." Was there some tribe or city-state at the wast of Greece, err I mean Hellas, by that name that the Romans took the word from?

<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greece>

Etymology


>From Latin Graecia < Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graekos), a character in
Greek mythology, the son of Thessalos, the king of Fthia, whom Ἑλλάς
(Hellas, "Greece") and Ἕλληνες (Hellenes, "the Greeks") were also
named after.

[...]

Any guesses why it would be Řecko in Czech?

-- 
Andy