Where does your country derive its name from?

gay ass native american village

I feel stupid for not knowing this one, but this is really cool
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In Faroese, the name appears as Föroyar. Oyar represents the plural of oy, older Faroese for "island". Due to sound changes, the modern Faroese word for island is oyggj. The first element, för, may reflect an Old Norse word fær (sheep), although this analysis is sometimes disputed because Faroese now uses the word seyður (from Old Norse sauðr) to mean "sheep". Another possibility is that the Irish monks, who settled the island around 625, had already given the islands a name related to the Gaelic word fearrann, meaning "land" or "estate". This name could then have been passed on to the Norwegian settlers, who then added oyar (islands). The name thus translates as either "Islands of Sheep" or "Islands of Fearrann".

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Magyarország > the country of the magyars, we are the magyars.

some tent pakis or something

means "bellybutton of the moon" in Nahuatl or some shit

Indian Archipelago.

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Boda is a hungaryan surname??

Hwan

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We are a collection of states that united together into one country, and it's in the continent of North America.
Everywhere else in America is shitty and didn't unite so we became the USA

mexicas

maricas

>The name "England" is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means "land of the Angles". The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages.

>The name of the Angles may have been first recorded in Latinised form, as Anglii, in the Germania of Tacitus. It is thought to derive from the name of the area they originally inhabited, the Anglia Peninsula (Angeln in modern German, Angel in Danish). This name has been hypothesised to originate from the Germanic root for "narrow" (compare German and Dutch eng = "narrow"), meaning "the Narrow [Water]", another theory is that the name meant "hook", as in angling for fish

>During the fifth century, all Germanic tribes who invaded Britain were referred to as Englisc, who were speakers of Old English (which was known as Englisc, Ænglisc, or Anglisc). Englisc also goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h2enǵʰ-, meaning narrow. In any case, the Angles may have been called such because they were a fishing people or were originally descended from such, so England would mean "land of the fishermen", and English would be "the fishermen's language".

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>America is shitty
Don´t give a shit.
For me, we should be named NEW HIBERIA.
I don´t want to be named after some italian fag

fields (pole)

It can pass as a Hungarian surname, but I think Boda is so simple that every language could use it.

What would a good white name for Canada be?

Hellas comes from Hellin, a guy whose sons were named Aiolos, Doros and Xanthos, who were the Propaters of the Ionian, the Dorian, the Achaian and the Aiolian tribes.

New Foundland

What's the shittiest part of South America? Is it actually Brazil??

new new england

small native tribe we probably genocided, out of sympathy

I had a girfriend whose father is white and has this surname. Her mommy is native american, though. Very hot mixed girl with euro features and native eyes and hair :)

>Argentum

Silver because of NO GOLD.

>inb4 rio de la plata

goldless people lies

If you mean latin america the answer is central América (El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala...)
It you actually mean South America the answer is probably Bolivia. It's not so violent but it's the poorest country in the region.

Some obscure island in an obscure country in Europe.

When Christopher Columbus arrived and saw that the natives here had lots of gold ornaments he named this country rich coast (Costa Rica=Rich Coast)

so... do you still have gold left?... asking for a friend....

Americo's boipucci

No, debuelban el horo

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Hrvatska.
(land) of Croats
According to a legend in one of our medieval chronicles, the people took the name of Hrvat, one of the five brothers and two sisters who have led them to these lands.

Ah interesting, thanks user! Wasn't sure if there were any other actually bad countries in South America. Places like Chile and Peru seem not that bad.
I'm aware Central America is shit though, desu I kind of disregard that whole area. Only thing of value down there is the Panama Canal.

Northeast Brazil

The rest of country is like Argentina

A rebranding from old name.
Land of Malays -> Malaysia so it would have less syllable and appealing.

The territory of Austria was colonised by the kingdom of Bavaria and so "Österreich" just evolved out of what literally meant Eastern realm/Reich to them.

Land of the BVLLS

goryo -> korea
arabian traders called our old kingdom korea

Argentina = Argentum (silver)
>Aleixo Garcia, one of the survivors of the shipwrecked expedition mounted by Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516, heard notices about a powerful White King in a country very rich in silver, at the mountains called "Sierra de la Plata"
>While the exact origin of the name "Rio de la Plata" is unknown, Sebastian Cabot's exploration between 1526 and 1529 is widely credited to have inspired such name due to his obtaining and collecting a variety of silver objects from the Guaraní tribes along the Paraguay river.[3] The river received other names, such as "Mar Dulce", "Río de Solís", "Río de Santa María", and "Río Jordán", but "Río de La Plata" was the one that prevailed.
>The Portuguese cartographer Lopo Homem made reference to the place as "Terra Argentea" in a 1554 map.[4] The first mention of the name "Argentina" was in Martín del Barco Centenera's poem Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata, con otros acaecimientos de los reinos del Perú, Tucumán y estado del Brasil, published in Spain in 1602.[4]

What are Austrians even?

Bavarians, but better

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hellene
Ancient hero dude,his male line supposedly created the 3 hellenic trubes that made greece
Also might be the name of the greek tribe that lived around Dodoni in epirus

The Slavic word for words.

Ethnically?

The area was settled by Romans and Celts and later Slavs and mostly Germans.
Our dialect is pretty much the same as Bavarian, so those had probably the biggest influence.

From the Latin name "terra australis" meaning southern land

Some Spanish guy who made a map

italian*

So you're nothing in particular. Gotcha.

*Greek

Potato land.

Scotland 2

Basically ancient mutts, yes.

but he was from florence

From God.

which is greek land

then why did they kill us in the late middle ages

Well I like you

I don't know about ethnicity, but Amerigo Vespucci doesn't sound greek to me

Deutsch comes from teuta which means people

Lands that are of low altitude.

Realm of the Swedes
Sve=Svea tribe/Svear
Rike=kingdom or realm

WRONG

Waldseemüller was german

And when he used the name America, he was talking about Brazil, Caribe and Mexico

norway is either from old norse norðvegr, meaning "the northern way"
or it can mean "the way alongside the narrow fjords"
or it can be named after some mythological king called nor, so "king nor's way"

teta in brazilian pt means boobs

German = boobs land

From the name of that one tribe that united those other tribes into a country. Polanie (literally Field Men) were called that way either because the majority of them worked in the fields or because they lived in the plains.

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Was waiting for this.

From the Franks

Also I think Frank means free or something

Hibernia (Roman name) ---> Éiru (matron goddess of the island) --> Éire --> Ireland (English name)

How so?

Ask a S*rb

Pretty interesting reading
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Italy

shqipëria - land of the eagles

It's funny. Not in a mocking way, just in a comical one.

How come Greece is Greece in English but something like Hellas in Greek?

Suomi -> Proto-Baltic Zeme ("Land")
Finland (Swedish) -> Land of the Finns, unsurprisingly

Same way how the words Republic and Democracy both exist. Romans called us that so it stuck.

Alright. It could be worse. We’re called after Germans (Deutsch) by the English while Deutschers became Germans

Eire comes from Eiru, which come from the Primitive Irish Iweriu, which itself comes from Proto-celtic Iweryu and PIE word for Fat Iwer. The greeks, through contact with the inhabitants of cornwall and wales (circa 200BC) came to know the island by its primitive irish name. This changed in greek to Iverna/Ierna, which the romans latinized to Hibernia due to its similarity to the word Hibernus.

So the origin of the latin, greek, irish and english names for Ireland is the PIE word for Fat. The irony

I know. Blame anglos for that.

Graecians was one of the Hellenic tribes, probably one towards the West.
Ionians were the Easternmost tribe, so the name Yunan Yavan etc exists in the Eastern countries.

>in brazilian

This.
The Norwegian coast has many fjords and islands, and it was safer to travel between fjords and islands in quiet waters than out on the high seas.
Norway was thus the land of "the North way" or "the narrow way".

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A character in the Bible, named after an angel in the Bible

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Banabá>Banamá>Panamá

It used to be a borrowing from the old finnish or old norse where it was denoted these blond warlike retards on the longships

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America Jr

Are you saying that the Russians are WE WUZing?

"Israel" means "struggling with God". Didn't you know who Google invented?