This though just randomly came into my head while writing.

The word "manual". I was thinking about the different vocabulary that Ponies use compared to us. They don't say "hand, person, -one, or man" and since manual has "man" in it, I did some research to see if it would be changed by Equestrian Etymology.

Apparently I had it completely wrong, as manual comes from latin "manus", meaning hand.

So it turns out that the word would change, just not in the way I originally thought.

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Am I the only one bothered by the lack of a definite meaning to the name "Equestria"? No, seriously, Southern Equestria=Egypt? Anyway, I wondered how to integrate that into my story and then I gave it a local name, things snowballed, and here I am with names for several country for my story as well as canon, so lets get started.

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I do love this community.

What do you call a unicorn with wings? We refer to them as alicorns now, but where did we get that word from anyway? The show staff themselves didn’t know what to call these things, sometimes referring to them as pegacorns.

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this is what we used to spend a large majority of our time thinking about and studying before we were convinced by the universe all earthly pursuits are futile and pointless

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I'm something of an Etymology Enthusiast. I love finding out how words came to existence, where they came from and what they mean when you take them apart.
So I thought I might try my hand at creating a real-world equivalent series of the world's countries.
Feel free to use these (Though please credit me)

West Asia- Ashwar

· Armenia: Erivara
· Bahrain: Lalura
· Iran: Khayla
· Iraq: Duraq
· Israel: Nesora (Little Miracle)
· Jordan: Kimira
· Kuwait: Abarath

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...like "chasm".