AFRIC-A

[Adisa]

In a recent look at the letter A, I read in a dictionary, the letter A is a suffix  in the word Africa (Afric-a).  

The etymology of Africa read in Wikipedia is as follows; 

Afri was a Latin name used to refer to the Carthaginians who dwelt in North Africa in modern-day Tunisia. Their name is usually connected with Phoenician afar, "dust", but a 1981 hypothesis has asserted that it stems from the Berber word ifri or ifran meaning "cave" and "caves", in reference to cave dwellers.  Africa or Ifri or Afer is the name of Banu Ifran from Algeria and Tripolitania (Berber Tribe of Yafran).

Under Roman rule, Carthage became the capital of Africa Province, which also included the coastal part of modern Libya.  The Latin suffix "-ica" can sometimes be used to denote a land (e.g., in Celtica from Celtes, as used by Julius Caesar). The later Muslim kingdom of Ifriqiya, modern-day Tunisia, also preserved a form of the name.

Other etymological hypotheses that have been postulated for the ancient name "Africa":

the 1st century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (Ant. 1.15) asserted that it was named for Epher, grandson of Abraham according to Gen. 25:4, whose descendants, he claimed, had invaded Libya.
Latin word aprica ("sunny") mentioned by Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae XIV.5.2.
the Greek word aphrike (Αφρική), meaning "without cold." This was proposed by historian Leo Africanus (1488–1554), who suggested the Greek word phrike (φρίκη, meaning "cold and horror"), combined with the privative prefix "a-", thus indicating a land free of cold and horror.
Another theory is that the word aphrikè comes from aphròs, 'foam' and Aphrikè, 'land of foam', meaning the land of the big waves (like Attica, from the word aktè, Aktikè meaning land of the coasts).
Massey, in 1881, derived an etymology from the Egyptian af-rui-ka, "to turn toward the opening of the Ka." The Ka is the energetic double of every person and "opening of the Ka" refers to a womb or birthplace. Africa would be, for the Egyptians, "the birthplace."
yet another hypothesis was proposed by Michèle Fruyt in Revue de Philologie 50, 1976: 221–238, linking the Latin word with africus 'south wind', which would be of Umbrian origin and mean originally 'rainy wind'.

[Clifford Black]

Namaska Adisa, learn as many of the guessedupon hypothesis that you can find time to look up.  Keep doing what you are learning how to do and it will come to you what the word means. If all else fails then I will show you how to unravel it for yourself.

B.

[Adisa]

Reading the writing of Captain Iohn Smith aka John Smith, read the word Affrick several times. 

The etymology of Affrick:  from Old Irish Afraic, from Latin Āfrica.

[Clifford Black]

When the time comes, I am going to enjoy the look on your face, and out of all of the wonder about the word the thought that it was a word developed in Carthage (modern day North Africa) can get you there.

B.

[Adisa]

I am there Dr. B, I have come to know the land acquired for the province of Africa was the site of the ancient city of Carthage. Other large cities in the region included Hadrumetum (modern Sousse, Tunisia), capital of Byzacena, Hippo Regius (modern Annaba, Algeria). The province was established by the Roman Republic in 146 BC, following the Third Punic War.

I'm just in wonder of the variations of the Name I only knew as Africa. From the recent stories I've heard people repeat about the name, to the names I have come to see for my self, it is just astonishing to me to come across the different variations.

[Adisa]

More has been found through the study of the Morocco Treaty of Peace of September 1863.  This treaty was signed at Meccanez also spelled Meknes or Meqbinez. 

[Eclectic Educators]

Funny that we talked about this and Asia...

[Adisa]

This is a stele engraved with the symbol of Tanith, Tunit, Tanit.

Tanit^[1] was a Punic and Phoenician goddess, the chief deity of Carthage alongside her consort Ba`al Hammon.^[2][3] She was also adopted by the Punic Berber people.

Tanit is also called Tinnit, Tannou or Tangou. The name appears to have originated in Carthage (modern day Tunisia), though it does not appear in local theophorous names.^[4] She was equivalent to the moon-goddess Astarte, and later worshipped in Roman Carthage in her Romanized form as Dea Caelestis, Juno Caelestis or simply Caelestis.

Astarte (Greek: Ἀστάρτη, Astártē) is the Hellenized form of the Middle Eastern goddess Ishtar, worshipped from the Bronze Agethrough classical antiquity. The name is particularly associated with her worship in the ancient Levant among the Canaanites andPhoenicians. She was also celebrated in Egypt following the importation of Levantine cults there. The name Astarte is sometimes also applied to her cults in Mesopotamian cultures like Assyria and Babylonia.