Ἀσία

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬. There is no current consensus on the origin of the word. It originally applied only to Anatolia, and was later extended to its current definition. Likely an extension from or related to of uncertain origin, but perhaps from:
 * A proposed word asis, meaning “muddy” or “silty”, as reference to the silty eastern shores of the Aegean sea.
 * , a reference to the rising sun, hence “land of the sunrise”; this is however potentially problematic as the Aššuwa league was west not east of the Hittite polity. Compare also.
 * Alternatively from the same, in the sense of “rising, rising up, to leave, to depart”. The Aššuwa league was formed after initial Hittite incursions into the western peninsula as a coalition to balk advancement; described as a rebellion, an uprising or a breaking away of lands on the fringe of Hittite control. A reconciliation between the two could be found as one sense providing the meaning for western Asia-minor in the Hittite view and the other for the sense of the direction in a general sense by the Akkadian terminology. For the early Greeks both the league and the sunrise coincided in the same direction.

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Pronunciation
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The first vowel is short in prose and long in verse.