Etymology

Chernobyl welcome sign

 

The city’s name is the same as one of the Ukrainian names for Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort or common wormwood, which is Ukrainian: чорнобиль, romanized: chornóbyl’ (or more commonly полин звичайний polýn zvycháynyy, ‘common artemisia’).^[4]The name is inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьrnobylъ or Proto-Slavic *čьrnobyl, a compound of Proto-Slavic *čьrnъ ‘black’ + Proto-Slavic *bylь ‘grass’, the parts related to Ukrainian: чорний, romanized: chórnyy, lit.‘black’ and било byló, ‘stalk’, so named in distinction to the lighter-stemmed wormwood A. absinthium.^[4]

And the third angel sounded the trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, burning as it were a torch, and it fell on the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters:
Et tertius angelus tuba cecinit : et cecidit de caelo stella magna, ardens tamquam facula, et cecidit in tertiam partem fluminum, et in fontes aquarum :

And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
et nomen stellae dicitur Absinthium, et facta est tertia pars aquarum in absinthium; et multi hominum mortui sunt de aquis, quia amarae factae sunt.

Revelation 8: 10-11