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Lingui-trivia
May. 8th, 2015 08:42 amQ: Is the star Vega -- directly overhead here mid-summer, these days seen rising in the northeast -- named for the singular of "Las Vegas"?
A: Nope. Las Vegas means "the meadows" in Spanish. Was there some desert version of grasslands there? Meanwhile, Vega is yet another of those Arabic-named stars, the name a corruption of "wāqi" or "falling," as in a falling eagle, "an-nasr al-wāqi."
And now we know. (I wonder if Egypt's Nasser's family name had to do with eagles?)
A: Nope. Las Vegas means "the meadows" in Spanish. Was there some desert version of grasslands there? Meanwhile, Vega is yet another of those Arabic-named stars, the name a corruption of "wāqi" or "falling," as in a falling eagle, "an-nasr al-wāqi."
And now we know. (I wonder if Egypt's Nasser's family name had to do with eagles?)