Asia
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wiktionary
From Middle English Asia, Asie, from Old French Asie and Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ(Asíā), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊(a-si-wi-ja/aswijaː/), in turn probably from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿(aš-šu-wa/Aššuwa/, “northwest Anatolia”) of uncertain origin. Potentially from a Aegean language family substrate or Akkadian; for more see its ancestors.
etymonline
Asia
c. 1300, from Latin Asia, from Greek Asia, speculated to be from Akkadian asu "to go out, to rise," in reference to the sun, thus "the land of the sunrise." Used by the early Greeks of what later was known as Asia Minor; by Pliny of the whole continent.
