Question: Who argues that the root of the term "span" is the Phoenecian word "spy", meaning "to forge metals"?
About the article "Spain", section "Etymology".

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The origins of the Roman name "Hispania", from which the modern name "España" was derived, are uncertain and are possibly unknown due to the inadequate evidence.
"Hispania" may derive from the poetic use of the term "Hesperia", reflecting the Greek perception of Italy as a "western land" or "land of the setting sun" ("Hesperia", "Ἑσπερία" in Greek) and Spain, being still further west, as "Hesperia ultima".
It may also be a derivation of the Punic "I-Shpania" (אי שפניא), meaning "island of rabbits", "land of rabbits" or "edge", a reference to Spain's location at the end of the Mediterranean; Roman coins struck in the region from the reign of Hadrian show a female figure with a coney at her feet, and Strabo called it the "land of the rabbits".
There is also the claim that "Hispania" derives from the Basque word "Ezpanna" meaning "edge" or "border", another reference to the fact that the Iberian peninsula constitutes the southwest of the European continent.
The Renaissance scholar Antonio de Nebrija proposed that the word "Hispania" evolved from the Iberian word "Hispalis", meaning "city of the western world".
Jesús Luis Cunchillos argues that the root of the term "span" is the Phoenecian word "spy", meaning "to forge metals".
Therefore "i-spn-ya" would mean "the land where metals are forged".
Two 15th century Spanish Jewish scholars, Don Isaac Abrabanel and Shelomó ibn Verga, have given a different explanation as to how Spain derived its name.
Don Isaac Abrabanel was one of the principal persons of Spain’s Jewish community and one of the king’s trusted courtiers who witnessed the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492.
Both men wrote in two different published works that the first Jews to reach Spain were brought by ship by Phiros who was confederate with the king of Babylon when he laid siege to Jerusalem.
This man was a Grecian by birth, but who had been given a kingdom in Spain.
He became related by marriage to Espan, the nephew of king Heracles, who also ruled over a kingdom in Spain.
Heracles later renounced his throne in preference for his native Greece, leaving his kingdom to his nephew, Espan, from whom the country of España (Spain) took its name.
Based upon their testimonies, this eponym would have already been in use in Spain by c. 350 BCE.
Boeotia plays a prominent part in Greek mythology.
Of the two great centres of legends, Thebes, with its Cadmean population, figures as a military stronghold, and Orchomenus, the home of the Minyae, as an enterprising commercial city.
The mythical aboriginal king Ogyges is best known as king of the Ectenes or Hectenes who were the autochthones or earliest inhabitants of Boeotia, where the city of Thebes would later be founded.
As such, he became the first ruler of Thebes, which was at that time named "Ogygia" (Ὠγυγία) after him.
Subsequently, poets referred to the Thebans as "Ogygidae" (Ὠγυγίδαι).
The first worldwide deluge of Greek mythology, named "Ogygian", is mentioned during his reign.
The name is related to Okeanos (Ocean), the great river which was believed to surround the earth.
This word is derived from a Phoenecian root meaning "to encircle".
Later "Ogygian" came to mean "from earliest days".
John Chadwick speculatively relates the name of Perse, daughter of Okeanos, with the name of the vegetation goddess Persephone, who in some versions appears as Persephione, daughter of Minyas.
Aeschylus distinguishes Boeotian Thebes from Ogygian Thebes (Egyptian), indicating the relation of Ogyges with the East. 
Arguments against a reference to homosexual behaviour.
The Greek word ; "malakos" carries a root meaning of soft, luxurious or dainty, but here, G. Fee argues, it is used in a much darker way, possibly referring to the more passive partner in a homosexual relationship.
According to Scroggs ("op cit"), the word "malakos" in Paul’s list refers specifically to this category of person, the effeminate call-boy.
Others, for example Olson, based on previous and subsequent uses of the term, interprets "malakos" to mean an effeminate but not necessarily homosexual man.
Olson argues that the μαλακοί in Paul’s time, "almost always referred in a negative, pejorative way to a widely despised group of people who functioned as effeminate 'call boys'."
Some theologians have argued that, when read in historical context, the Jewish Platonist philosopher Philo of Alexandria used the term in reference to temple prostitution. 
The first consonantal spelling, "B-R-K" (, , and ""), is most commonly associated in Arabic with the meaning "blessed" as well as the meanings "to make to kneel down" (said of the camel), "to stoop", and "to cower".
In Hebrew, it can be traced from Phoenecian, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Akkadian, and Classical Arabic roots having the meanings, "knee", "kneel", "prostrate", "venerate", "bless", "be blessed", and "boon" as well as (camel's, human) "chest" and sometimes "curse" or "blaspheme".
In Arabic, the prefix "mu-" as used in , "" connects the word which follows it with the word before it, making the former an adjective of the latter, hence the phrase "hosni mubarak" means "hosni who is blessed". 
The word "laird", known to have been used as far back as the 15th century and further, is a shortened form of 'laverd', which is an old Scottish word that shares a similar root to an Anglo-Saxon term meaning "lord" and the Middle English word 'lard' also meaning lord; however the terms "lord" and "lady" have since become words chiefly associated with peerage dignities in Scotland, so the term "laird" has come to have a separate meaning.