ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “CHIVALRY” - c. 1300, "body or host of knights; knighthood in the feudal social system; bravery in war, warfare as an art," from Old French chevalerie "knighthood, chivalry, nobility, cavalry,”
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “Latin” - Roman, the region of Italy around Rome, Classical Latin flourished from about 75 B.C.E. to about 200 C.E., the Latin of Lucretius, Catullus, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Livy, Seneca. 🕎Luke 23;35-38 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “country” - mid-13c., "(one's) native land;" c. 1300, "any geographic area," "region, district,” "(land) spread before one," as "area surrounding a walled city or town
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “J ” - it is a latecomer to the alphabet and originally had no sound value. The letter itself began as a scribal modification of Roman -i- in continental Medieval Latin.
OCTOBER 29TH 1996 NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ENTITLED SCHOLARS DEBATE ORGINS OF YIDDISH & THE MIGRATION OF JEWS “THE EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS ARE NOT SEMITIC, THEY WERE LARGELY DESCENDED FROM THE TURKISH KHAZARS WHO CONVERTED TO JUDAISM IN MEDIEVAL TIMES.