Pest, Hungary: Difference between revisions

According to [[Ptolemy]] the settlement was called ''Pession'' in ancient times.<ref>Patrick Foote, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M9tqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT31&dq=pest+pession&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigpbvk88zhAhXmoIsKHayuC00Q6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=pession&f=false The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between], Mango Media Inc., 2018</ref><ref>Gudmund Schütte, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SkngAAAAMAAJ&q=pest+pession&dq=pest+pession&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigpbvk88zhAhXmoIsKHayuC00Q6AEINDAC Ptolemy's Maps of Northern Europe: A Reconstruction of the Prototypes], H. Hagerup, 1917 </ref> Alternatively, the name ''Pest'' may have come from a Slavic word meaning "furnace", "oven" (Bulgarian пещ ['pɛʃt]; Serbian пећ/peć; Croatian "peć"), related to the word пещера (meaning "cave"), probably with reference to a local cave where fire burned.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M1JIPAN-eJ4C | title=Placenames of the World | author=Adrian Room | publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] | year=2006 | page=70 | ISBN=0-7864-2248-3}}</ref> The spelling ''Pesth'' was occasionally used in English, even as late as the early 20th century,<ref>[http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/P/PES/pesth.html Pesth]</ref> although it is now considered archaic.