Literal World Map of Continents and Water Areas
A map of the literal translation for the continents and the larger divisions of the oceans (‘waters’), seas (‘filters’) and gulfs (‘bosoms’) of the world, at least until I got bored.
My methodology was, whenever possible, revert the development of a word until its literal meaning stopped being the current definition.
Some observations made during this process;
‘Baltic’ and ‘Caspian’ both mean “white”, thus their respective seas are labelled the same
‘East’ and ‘South’ both descend from words meaning “dawn”, hence the South and East China Seas being the same. Meanwhile, North means ‘left’ but south does not mean ‘right’.
The Barents and Bering sea were both named after guys with ‘bear’ in their name. Perhaps being named for a bear compels you to explore near the Ocean of Bears.
Of all the words on the map, the word red has always meant red, as far back as the PIE language. Red is Red!