Etymologien europäischer Ländernamen in ihrer Muttersprache
Von chaeyonce
Etymologien europäischer Ländernamen in ihrer Muttersprache
Von chaeyonce
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For Russia the current most accepted version is old swedish word, I think it was ‚ruotsi‘ – rowers. ‚Rus‘ existed as a social-ethnic group (we know their names from treaties, they look Scandinavian if anything). Then the name got spread on the whole country. And Russia is just Greek ‚Land of Rus‘ that was used in foreign relations.
Belarus is the same Rus, but with slavic Bel – ‚white‘. Why it is ‚white‘ is, again, debatable. Some of the Rus territories were ‚color-coded‘, i.e. what now is Western Ukraine was once called Chervona Rus (Red Rus). Not sure if it should be marked slavic or mixed if Rus is not slavic.
We actually don’t know from where „Česko“ or „Čech“ comes from, there are many theories.
For example:
>based on Slovenian and Kashubian appellations, the ethnonym +Čexъ ascribes the meaning of ʻboy‘, primarily ʻ[young man] with hair, beard and pubic hair of an adult‘
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>Based on Proto-Slavic *tišь / *tišiti (“quiet, calm”).
>Thus Čechъ might have meant “peaceful people” or “those who settled peacefully,” possibly contrasting with more warlike neighboring tribes.
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>Based on Proto-Slavic root *ček- (“to wait, to stay”)
>A minor theory connects it with *čekati (“to wait, stay”), suggesting “those who remained,”
Ukraine literally means (Land) at the edge. I don’t know how the compiler came to the division.
Albanian one is not from Latin, it’s from PIE -> Proto Albanian.
PIE „skep“ (related to english skip fun fact) -> Proto-Albanian „shkyp“ -> Albanian „shqip“. The „Oj“ in Shqip-oj is just a verb-forming suffix.
Shqipëtar (Shqipë-tar), tar being just an agentive suffix; (e.g lojë-tar meaning player, pylltar meaning forester)
Oh no. Where is Brittany, my beloved Litavis? As lithuanian i would want to see Litavis name one more time.
About Lietuva ( Lithuania ) is another theory – from to melt (Lieti ) like to melt/unite tribes around to one nation.
Qazaq is believed to come from a word meaning wanderer, free, independent or similar. Tying it to digging seems completely random.
I love being from a European-adjacent Arab country. We don’t get much maps but are usually included in European ones due to proximity.
Rus means rowers, it’s how people used to call vikings.
I thought Russia got its name from Ruthenia, a name given by the Romans to the people in the north.
Iraq is not shore from Arabic. It’s shore in Assyrian. The Arabic interpretation is well watered
It has multiple interpretations cuz the name origin is unknown
Sumerian – Uruk (city)
Akkadian – flag land/cultivated plains
Assyrian/Aramaic – shore/river bank
Persian – low lands
Arabic – well watered-rooted
Rus in ancient proto slavic probably meant…one with red hair.
The Fins just shrugged when they had to file their county name
For Portugal, it’s wrong. Cale doesn’t come from latin calere, it comes from the city of Cale (modern day Gaia), whose name is a celtic word whose meaning we don’t know. Some theories say it means beautiful, some say it means port, some say it was the name of a God or Goddess, some say it’s just the name those people called themselves (so related to other names like Galicia and Gallia and Galatia), but we don’t know.