2006-09-26 05:54:59 · 7 answers · asked by jas 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
From the Dutch taptoe - taps shut.
2006-09-26 06:02:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since Neolithic times. Mummies bearing tattoos and dating from the end of the second millennium BCE have been discovered in Xinjiang, West China. Tattooing in Japan is thought to go back to the Paleolithic era, some ten thousand years ago. Various other cultures have had their own tattoo traditions, ranging from rubbing cuts and other wounds with ashes, to hand-pricking the skin to insert dyes.
2006-09-26 12:58:32 · answer #2 · answered by Yahoo Medic 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not a country. I believe it's Polynesian. British sailors saw the natives with wonderous markings on their bodies, and decided to have them put on their own bodies. The process of tapping or tatting is ancient, though. Even the Ice Man had crosses tattooed on his legs. I suspect its roots are in pre-Latin languages. There are only two or three of them.
2006-09-26 13:06:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
actually nobody knows the true origin of tattoos but the word tattoo is translated into Tahitian pronouncing the word to tatu meaning "to mark something"
2006-09-26 13:19:40 · answer #4 · answered by no nonsence 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fantasy Island.
"The Plane! The Plane!"
2006-09-26 13:02:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
i dont know ;p
2006-09-26 13:10:04 · answer #6 · answered by nics 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latin?
2006-09-26 12:57:59 · answer #7 · answered by ruthie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋