[GeneralMayhem]

Similarly, the word "barbarian" comes from the ancient Greeks describing the people who lived around them as sounding like they were saying "bar bar bar".

[nielsole]

That's amazing. Wiktionary backs you up on this and compares it to "bla bla bla".

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B2%CE...

[umeshunni]

Funny, I always thought it came from the word Barba (hair/beard) because they considered them uncultured and unshaven.

[sorokod]

Greeks were into beards big time.