Kia Motors America

[Wilson Gray]

Yeah. That looks right to me, too.

-Wilson

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:51 AM, LanDi Liu <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  From their site:
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>  The word "Kia" is derived from the Chinese characters "ki", meaning to
>  "arise or come up out of", and "a", referring to Asia.  So when put
>  together, "Kia" means to "arise or come up out of Asia".
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>  Shit.  Another noun verbed.  I hate when people noun verbs.  On second
>  thought it looks like a verb nouned.  Are there other cars with verbs
>  as names?
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>  ["ki" is not pinyin, so I'm guessing by the meaning that "qi3" (起) and
>  "ya4" (亚) are the characters being referred to.]
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>  Randy
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>  On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu> wrote:
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>  >  Btw, what is the etymology of this Kia?
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>  >  Gerald Cohen
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