>His country is named after this
kek
What's your country named after?
>Germany
>Land of the people
>>56865598
Panama means "abundance of fish and butterflies" in native language
>flag
>literally multiple pathogens
KANN NICHT FABRIZIEREN
"Land of the free"
At first, Praotec Čech (the Elder Czech) who was travelling with his people and his brothers Kníže Lech and Kníže Rus, they stopped for a night under a mountain Říp, he climbed there next morning and said he has seen a beautiful, fertile land to his people. They decided, they'll name the country after him. His brothers continued their journey, to found what is now Poland and Russia later.
Reich of the Svea tribe.
America means "total ruler". I am serious, look at the wiktionary. First part is debatable but could mean "all, complete", second part is "ruler".
Low (lying) land
>>56865826
>tfw we memed Netherland's Name into existence
Meme magic confirmed real.
![800px-N&SAmerica-pol[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/8lx9if0.jpg "800px-N&SAmerica-pol[1].jpg")
>>56865825
but your country's name is "United States" , america is the name of your continent.
America means "total ruler". I am serious, look at the wiktionary. First part is debatable but could mean "all, complete", second part is "ruler".
>>56865899
CHI
"east land" i guess
>>56865598
>>Germany
>>Land of the people
Yes
>>56865921
>>56866011
you're an embarrassment
>>56865880
It was always known as the Low Lands, my Kraut friend. The frogs call us that too.
>>56865905
>>56865825
>total ruler
You wish
>>56866042
where's proof?
>>56865905
How? It's derived from a given name
>>56865825
>>56865905
>literally named after the handrubbing pastaman
South Land. Yuros thought there had to be a giant landmass down here to 'counter-balance' the amount of landmass up in the Northern Hemisphere.
>They. Were. Wrong!!
>Suomi
Uncertain. But following theories:
Proto-Baltic word *źemē, meaning "land".
Indo-European word *gʰm-on "man" (cf. Gothic guma, Latin homo) has been suggested, being borrowed as *ćoma.
Earlier theories suggested derivation from suomaa (fen land) or suoniemi (fen cape).
There's tons of place names in eastern Finland that no one knows what the fuck they mean, suggesting the country was named by them and the language died out.
>Finland
Land of the Finns.
Indo-Europeans call the Ugric people around Finland Fenni, Phinnoi, Finnum, and Skrithfinni / Scridefinnum. That plus land.
>>56865598
Argentina is named after Ag.
If I have to tell you what Ag is, go back to middle school.
Slovenia
>land of the Slavs
unlike our neighbors of course
>>56866130
>implying a planet exists that has a gigantic landmass on one side and absolutely nothing on the other side
would fly dick ass curves through the galaxy, even without wind resistance
does slavonia mean the same?
>>56866201
If you spent "middle school" memorising the periodic table, your education system sucks.
>>56866260
Yes, and so does Slovakia
>>56866040
>>56866285
>>56866290
already answered. thanks
>>56866269
Nope, but it still sucks.
>>56866186
>There's tons of place names in eastern Finland that no one knows what the fuck they mean
Which names? Any links?
>>56866084
>>56865905
>>56866071
>>56866128
Okay it is named after Amerigo Vespucci, but Amerigo itself is the latin version of the medieval version of the German name Emmrich, in which the second element is ric meaning "power". The first element may be ermen "whole, universal", amal "work, labour" or heim "home".
>>56866201
>his country is named after the shiny, reflecting skin of the white people living there
bretty gud
>>56866351
But America wasn't named like that because they were thinking about the etymology of Emmerich, they were thinking of some Italian happy merchant
>>56866355
our most important river is called "Rio de la plata"
But I really like you, germany.
>Verb
>finna
>to find
>Old Norse
>Etymology From Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”). Cognate with Old English findan, Old Frisian finda, Old Saxon findan, Old Dutch findan, Old High German findan, Gothic
>>56866425
>>56866351
It was named after the merchant.
I support my country's dad.
>>56866425
or so you think
>>56865598
>rivulet
Lithuania is the manlet of rivers
Borderland
>Magyarország
Country of the Magyars
>>56866459
Spain is your country's dad.
Your mother is a tossed-up whore that left him long long ago, but you cling to her as if she would have changed your life to a significant degree.
Maybe you shouldn't have nationalized your dad's car
Place of the Mexicas
>>56866350
Imatra, Saimaa (the biggest lake in Finland) and etc.
>>56865598
>Belarus
>White Russia
>>56866563
>Russia
>Asian Rus
>>56866532
Kek
Italy fucks spain 9/11 times.
>>56866040
>United States of Mexico -> Mexican
>United States of America -> American
not my fault you guys sought independence late.
>Bolivar was born in 1783
>a decade after we were independent
lol
>>56865905
>>56866595
I agree, but that doesn't stop Italy from being absent from your life
She dumped thousands of immigrants on you and left.
Just like what Germany and Ireland did to us
>>56865598
>Norway
We piss on all of you sannava biatchez
>>56866201
The only country named after an element, by the way
>>56866667
what about Poland (named after polonium)
>>56865598
>Land of the people
I thought "Deutsch" came from Clear ? It does in Dutch, where "Duits" is clearly related to Duidelijk (Clear) and Duiden (To point something out); Duits meaning "The language of the people/Theodiscus"
>>56866629
German inmigrants fucking created the atomic bomb dude.
you have the only good inmigrants, euro inmigrants.
Ice
>>56866690
Polonium was named after Poland, not the other way around.
>>56866355
>>56866428
>his country was named after a metal that Spain raped you for
Beta tier
>USA's only colony is Liberia
We should have named it Adamantia or something
>>56866595
>Argentina ruled by Spaniards=the country of the future European tier.
>Argentina ruled by non Spaniards=Third world shithole with a trash tier economy.
Lol. You Argentinians are big losers.
>>56866599
Wasn't bolivar from... Venezuela?
>>56866701
This is hilarious as Dutch is the very opposite of clear
>>56866703
>you have the only good inmigrants
tell that to Mexico, they're sending an endless amount of short fat people
The USA of the 1940s/1950s is long long dead. I have no hope for the future. We're dead
>>56866747
Silver was in peru M8.
>>56866735
Like Americium an Germanium
>>56866769
How so?
>>56866623
wow.
>>56866557
Thanks but is there any info on this mysterious people giving those names?
>>56866784
Well shit. What is Peru named after?
>>56866794
I'm still waiting on Belgonium but I doubt they'll ever be relevant
>>56866775
I don't know, never meet a mexican.
U.S.A will never be the same.
Argentina will not go back to 1920.
It's pretty sad.
>>56866557
Saime - family in Latvian/Lithuanian
>>56866186
Another possibility is Samea(muddy/dark{water}). The same root exists in Sanskrit and Germanic languages with a meaning revolving around darkness.
Terra Australis Incognita
Unknown Southern Land
>>56866852
Some Indian shit?
>>56866701
>Etymology[edit]
From Middle Dutch duutsc, a variant of dietsc (from which Diets), both from Old Dutch *thiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz, from *þeudō (“people, nation”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh2 (“people”).
>Cognate with German deutsch, Danish tysk.
Proto-Indo-European is about as far back as you can go with our languages
>>56866852
>>56866794
or pic related
>>56866852
>I'm still waiting on Belgonium but I doubt they'll ever be relevant
The new elements that can still be discovered are ridiculously unstable and don't get cool names anymore.
Like Ununtrium, named after its atomic numbers.
>>56866835
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA-YANuPwI4
>31:50
Nothing really.
>>56866835
Pre-Finns are known as Jatuli(Jötun/Giant) in western Finland and Meteli(loud noise)in eastern Finland. At least some pre-Finns spoke proto-Saami before moving up to Lapland but there probably were non-Saami pre-Finns too.
>>56866917
God damn Australia is badass
>>56866922
I would laugh but I just moved out of a town called Ottawa, which is Indian shit for "trading center"
No one knows for sure though it is widely accepted that the written account in Tacitus 'Germania' is the starting point. There was no unifying name for our tribes back then so Tacitus just referred to us as Aestii, literally the tribes East from the Germanics. The countries that surround us still use names associated with some of the tribes, like the Latvian 'Igaunia' and Finnish 'Viro'.
>>56866997
>Jötun
I believe the word you are looking for is "Ettin"
>>56866729
I honestly thought it meant Island
>>56867048
That's the Anglo Saxon version of the word. Old Norse is more relevant.
>>56867039
more like 'inscrutable'
like Asians
>>56866186
>Indo-Europeans call the Ugric people around Finland Fenni, Phinnoi, Finnum, and Skrithfinni / Scridefinnum. That plus land.
more like skræling :^)
>>56867044
>>56867102
Skraeling were Native American.
>>56865766
>a beautiful, fertile land
he was referring to your god forsaken
valley?
Rus means somebody who has light-brown hair.
>>56866969
>Like Ununtrium, named after its atomic numbers.
Those are just placeholder names though and might get proper ones in the future, a few of 110+ ones just got renamed recently
>>56866667
I thought cyprus was named after copper
>>56867374
Oh cool, I didn't know that
>Lietuva
rain land
>>56866769
Stop right there criminal scum!
Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence!
>>56867494
Nah. This urban legend has been debunked by linguists or whoever does that shit.
>>56865598
>Danmark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Denmark
>>56867481
No the other way around
>>56867608
Singapore, where chewing gum is a criminal offense worth 500 dollars.
Spanish King Philip's penis.
