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Until the latter half of the <sup>ʀw</sup>20700s, the island continent was simply referred to as ''Kirav'' (or local equivalents, see below) in ordinary speech. The adjective ''Ambrix'' ("great", "noble") had been attached to ''Kirav'' as a poetic honorific since the Third Empire, but did not enter common usage until Kiravian overseas expansion made it more frequently necessary to distinguish the island continent from the whole of the growing Kiravian realm. The adoption of 'Great' was also driven by the concurrent cultural zeitgeist in the coastal states, which embraced the nation's rise as a major power with imperial ambitions. | Until the latter half of the <sup>ʀw</sup>20700s, the island continent was simply referred to as ''Kirav'' (or local equivalents, see below) in ordinary speech. The adjective ''Ambrix'' ("great", "noble") had been attached to ''Kirav'' as a poetic honorific since the Third Empire, but did not enter common usage until Kiravian overseas expansion made it more frequently necessary to distinguish the island continent from the whole of the growing Kiravian realm. The adoption of 'Great' was also driven by the concurrent cultural zeitgeist in the coastal states, which embraced the nation's rise as a major power with imperial ambitions. | ||
The ultimate etymology of ''Kirav'' is not definitively known. The theory with the most credibility among Occidental linguists traces it to the reconstructed Proto-Kasavic ''*ḱʏdɮ'', other descendants of which include the Kiravic ''Kūla'' ("planet Earth"), and the Æonaran Coscivian ''śad'' (" land"), and the leading minority theory traces it to ''*sḱəgʷʰ'', believed to be the endonym of the primordial Kasavic peoples for themselves. However, neither of these proposed etymologies has widespread acceptance among Coscivian [[Deep philology|dark philologists]], most of whom reject them as a superposition of Levanto-Sarpic thought patterns onto primitive Kiravian history, incongruent with attested patterns of semantic relationships between analogous words in later languages and unlikely given what is known about the cosmology and self-conceptions of the Kasavs. Some believe that academia is barking up the wrong tree entirely, and that the ''kir'' root is ultimately of [[ | The ultimate etymology of ''Kirav'' is not definitively known. The theory with the most credibility among Occidental linguists traces it to the reconstructed Proto-Kasavic ''*ḱʏdɮ'', other descendants of which include the Kiravic ''Kūla'' ("planet Earth"), and the Æonaran Coscivian ''śad'' (" land"), and the leading minority theory traces it to ''*sḱəgʷʰ'', believed to be the endonym of the primordial Kasavic peoples for themselves. However, neither of these proposed etymologies has widespread acceptance among Coscivian [[Deep philology|dark philologists]], most of whom reject them as a superposition of Levanto-Sarpic thought patterns onto primitive Kiravian history, incongruent with attested patterns of semantic relationships between analogous words in later languages and unlikely given what is known about the cosmology and self-conceptions of the Kasavs. Some believe that academia is barking up the wrong tree entirely, and that the ''kir'' root is ultimately of [[Urom|Aboriginal]] origin. | ||
Residents of Great Kirav are usually called ''Kiravites'' (Kiravic: ''Kiraviēxtya'') rather than ''Great Kiravians'', though the latter term has seen some use. People from Great Kirav who no longer live there, especially first-generation colonists in the Federacy's overseas possessions, are called ''Kiraviēþûrix'' ("Kiravborn") or ''iodevahomax'' ("islocontinental"). | Residents of Great Kirav are usually called ''Kiravites'' (Kiravic: ''Kiraviēxtya'') rather than ''Great Kiravians'', though the latter term has seen some use. People from Great Kirav who no longer live there, especially first-generation colonists in the Federacy's overseas possessions, are called ''Kiraviēþûrix'' ("Kiravborn") or ''iodevahomax'' ("islocontinental"). | ||