ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “country” - mid-13c., "(one's) native land;" c. 1300, "any geographic area," "region, district,” "(land) spread before one," as "area surrounding a walled city or town
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “virgin” - c. 1200, "unmarried or chaste woman, from Latin virginem "maiden, unwedded girl or woman," "fresh, unused," marriageable girl," figurative sense of "pure, untainted”