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Title: The origin of the name of Gozo
Authors: Vella, Horatio Caesar Roger
Keywords: Gozo (Malta) -- History -- Classical period, 218 B.C.-535 A.D.
Names, Geographical -- Malta -- Gozo
Names, Geographical -- Malta
Names, Geographical -- Etymology
Issue Date: 2012
Publisher: University of Malta. Gozo Campus
Citation: Vella, H.C.R. (2012). The origin of the name of Gozo. Gozo Observer, 27, 3-20.
Abstract: “Do you come from Għawdex?” is a question that sounds as discordant as the other one, “Intom minn Gozo?”. To one not conversant with the Greek origin of the names of Gozo, such questions sound like being uttered by Maltese trying to speak English, and mix Maltese with English or, the other way round, like knowledgeable tourists trying to speak Maltese and, to our mind, mix it with “English”. This paper will show that none is the case. We, in fact, can use “Għawdex” liberally when speaking in English; likewise, we can use the name of “Gozo” when speaking in Maltese, for, as this paper will show, Gozo is an ancient variant of Gaudos from which it is derived, as much as Għawdex is. The irony is that Gozo, Għawdex and Gaudos did not originally belong to us.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/20771
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The Gozo Observer - Issue 27, December 2012
The Gozo Observer - Issue 27, December 2012

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