ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “Greek” - Grecas, "Greeks, inhabitants of Greece," from Latin Graeci "the Hellenes," Graikhos as equivalent to Hellenes is found in Aristotle ("Meteorologica") 🕎Acts 16;1-24 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “tongue” - In the "knowledge of a foreign language.”In 16c.-16c. in the classical revival the Tongues (or the Three Tongues) were Hebrew, Greek, Latin.🕎Acts 2;1-17 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 “gentile” - "one who is not a Israelite," c. 1400; (late 14c.), gentilis "of the same family. belonging to the same nation. fellow countrymen, kinsmen," but also "foreigners”
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “mischief” - c. 1300, "evil condition, wickedness, wrongdoing, evil," harm, trouble; “vexation" from meschever "come or bring to grief, (Meaning "harm or evil” "playful malice”