Why Mauritius and Mauritania sound so similar? Why do they share the "MAURIT" at the beginning?

Answer 1

These words have a similar Greek-Roman origin in fact, but different paths to present languages.

MAURITIUS - the island was named in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau by Dutch explorers. The French claimed Mauritius in 1715 and renamed it Ile de France. In 1810, Mauritius was captured by the British and renamed back to Mauritius.

The masculine name MAURICE is from the Roman name Mauricius, which derives from MAURUS. Saint Maurice was a Christian Roman soldier from Egypt. He and the other Christians in his legion were supposedly massacred by emperor Maximian for refusing to worship Roman gods. Thus, he is the patron saint of infantry soldiers.

MAURITANIA is Islamic Republic of Mauritania at present (Al Jumhuriyah al Islamiyah al MURITANIYAH), but this word was used to call a Roman province earlier (now the north parts of western Algeria and Morocco and lands of this province were an ancient Berber Kingdom before Romans.

The word "mauros" came to Roman languages from a Greek word ("dark") and was used first by the Greeks and Romans to name North African Imazighen aka Berbers who were notably darker than the north Mediterraneans. So Roman province meant "Land of the Blacks". Though the name "mauros" itself could appear in late Greek from a name of an African ethnic group, which had nothing to do with colour of skin.

Europeans called so people who conquered Southern Europe later, though these were linked to many different African ethnic groups, not only different ethnically inhabitants of Mauritania (Moors), but also Hausa and Taureg. "Moor" received a meaning an African Muslim in many European languages and was employed for racist-based differentiation around the world later: even Indians and Filipinos were called Moors in this way, the term was sometimes used synonymously with *****.

Such names as Morris, Moore, Whitemoor, etc. have the same origin. Marocco too.

Answer 2

Mauritius Mauritania

Answer 3

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Answer 4

masculine and feminine