Eurasia (n.)

before vowels Eur-, word forming element meaning "Europe, European," from combining form of Europe.

c. 1300, from Latin Asia, from Greek Asia, speculated to be from Akkadian asu "to go out, to rise," in reference to the sun, thus "the land of the sunrise." Used by the early Greeks of what later was known as Asia Minor; by Pliny of the whole continent.