paradise
The origin and history of paradise.
Etymology
From Greek paradeisos, originally meaning a walled garden or park, tracing back to a Persian word for an enclosed pleasure-ground — it displaced the earlier Old English word neorxnawang.
The origin and history of paradise.
From Greek paradeisos, originally meaning a walled garden or park, tracing back to a Persian word for an enclosed pleasure-ground — it displaced the earlier Old English word neorxnawang.
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