Meaning of your country's name?
Portugal:Port of Gallaeci/Galicia
Japan: A place where sun rises.
United Kingdom of Great Land of the Tattooed and Northern Westland
Named after some dude named Amerigo who drew some maps
>>58133582
it's weird that we're callaeci in name but lusitanian in our own poetry
Huh? Portugal = Portus Cale = Port of Cale
>>58134232
cale means it belongs to the callaeci, which were a people that lived all across the province of callaecia in roman times. it is where the name of galicia comes directly from, via suedes.
>>58134325
Oh, I missed that connection between the names. Thanks.
Ecuador=Equator line
Simple as that
>>58133582
Ember
Land of the People
>>58135000
wow, that actually makes me like your name more
Kazakhstan
Noone knows.
But one variant Kaz=goose,aq=white
Kingdom of swedes
The blue and white flag is much better than your current one, why don't you make a mouvement to try and change it new zealand-style, you're first world and a democracy so it shouldn't be hard for you.
Israel is the name given to biblical Jacob by god.
Literally in Hebrew:
>ISRA = wrestle
>EL = god
Greece/Hellas
Graecus and Hellen were two guys from Greek Mythology and Graeceans and Hellenes were Ancient Greek tribes
>>58134128
Always found that weird as well. Your nation was created by the people living in Gallaecia, not in Lusitania.
>>58135181
because it was the flag of the monarchy and the current republic doesn't like it
but i agree with you, i prefer it better
>>58135181
Because of them republicans, m8y. Killing the king was truly a mistake.
>>58133582
Former colonies, now sovereign States, acting in Unity in the land named for Amerigo Vespucci (or possibly another guy).
>>58135228
because the region isn't gallaecia anymore, i guess.
>>58133582
Heart of the Sea
also I heard it was named like this after the Lebu tribes who were here 12903810923123 years ago
![Brazil-Headline-News-Police-brutality-and-killings[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/nL8FTb9.jpg "Brazil-Headline-News-Police-brutality-and-killings[1].jpg")
>>58133582
Brazil = BRoke Ass ZIka faveLa
>>58135298
But almost half of Lusitania was in spanish territory and it was reconquered almost 400 years after the establishment of the county of Portugal. It doesn't make any sense. It's like if we decided to use the name Baetica for Spain.
>>58135014
"Deutschland" means land of the Brothers actually
>>58133582
Australia from "Terra Incognita Australis" (unknown southern land)
>>58135527
Australia = Floating version of West Virgina with slightly less meth.
>>58135048
Are you even portuguese? I thought it was obvious for everyone.
>>58133582
Land of the eternal butthurt
Land of Po
Guess.
>>58135610
i think most people would say 'it's the name of the tree'
USA = U- United S- States (of) A- America
Now u know :^)
Sverige: Kingdom of the Swedes
>>58135808
toothpaste?
Which one though?
The one we call ourselves, Sakartvelo?
the one we call ourselves in different our languages?
the one we're called by half of Europe, Georgia?
The one we're called by Slavs, Gruzia?
The one we're called by kebabs, Gurjistan?
>>58135808
Holland: The Land of Hol
>>58135808
hell?
>>58133582
Originally Italy was the name of just the southernmost part of the peninsula (modern day Calabria), and it may be derived from the legendary king that ruled there (Italus). Then the peninsula took the name from that region, and with the Roman Empire the toponym "Italy" was extended to the Alps and the islands
>>58135936
>The one we're called by Slavs, Gruzia?
We used to call you that too, until Jews from your country got mad and requested to call you 'Georgia' instead.
What does Gruzia mean?
Éire is named after a Goddess, which means abundant land.
>>58136080
pebbles
Bru, that's a good flag. Shame that the current Portugal flag look like fucking shit
>>58135808
Hohol land.
>>58136137
More like rubble but basically it's true
>>58135897
>>58135950
>>58135956
>>58136154
>holland
you faggots can't even spell the Netherlands
Nether = low
Hol = hollow
>>58136080
It's a Slavic interpretation of Gurjistan probably, which they took from Persia
or Slavic interpretation of Georgia, which they took from Greeks
>>58136272
i was just kidding desu, didnt know other languages used the same word
>>58136327
Then why would your local hate that name?
Is 'Gruzia' an offensive term?
Tsardom of Bulgaria
>>58136285
>tfw the Netherlands are called Holandia in your country.
Kek
>>58136285
>Hollow Land
Not a really nice name for a country tho.
>>58136481
Here too :^)
>Holanda
That's why I'm memeing.
>>58133582
nobody agrees on the etymology but we know that "gua-y" means "river belonging to" ("y" = water, "gua" = from)
Argentina
Land of silver
Honduras
Means "great depths", Christopher Golumbus said "gracias a dios salimos de esta honduras" (Thank god we are out of these depths) when he landed.
>>58136481
Here it's called Holanda, so yeah
>>58136387
nope, it's just a normal official term by many countries.
Did not know we hated it.
>>58133582
but galicia is spain
>>58135453
no, it's more akin to the old kingdom of castillia being called turmodigia
>>58135610
ember sounds more cool than brasa. it's a fucking charmander attacking
>>58136666
epic dank meme
>>58133582
Spain: land of rabbits
>>58133582
España is a word derivated from Hispania. Hispania literally means Land of the rabbits..... LAND OF THE FUCKING RABBITS
[Land] of the South [winds]
>>58136766
We have to change the name....
"Where the world ends", "Cold" or "Snow"
>>58136851
it's pretty nice though
Dunno.
Maybe
Suo-mi (suo = swamp)
>>58136927
but RABBITS.... It would be a great idea to change the name to Iberia.
I dont get it why Portugal has such a we wuz Lusitanian thing.
The Capital of Lusitania was in Spain.
The Capital of Gallaecia on the other hand was in Portugal.
>>58137033
there's nothing wrong about rabbits
plus Iberia could only work in a union with Portugal
>>58137028
No it means fine land or eastern land
>>58137033
Great way to piss off Portugal. Tell them they're in Iberia, if they say they're not respond that you meant the Iberian peninsula. Like us when people say we're British because we're in the British Isles.
>>58136481
here it's called "paÃses baixos" which means low countries
>>58137222
Wow that's new, never heard anyone calling that country anything other than Netherlands or Holland
>>58136124
Hows the potato famines goin, Mick?
>>58137222
We rarely use paÃses baixos here.
>>58137356
>Netherlands
>Nether lands
>>58137200
This
>>58137176
If they arent Iberians how they say, What is the problem?
>>58137200
They already did that back then and we did get pissed.
What do you think it felt like when they called their country Spain for the first time? Iberia and Hispania are two names for the same peninsula, only one is Greek and the other is Latin.
Back then Portuguese identified with Hispanic identity. After that and the creation of Spain we just said fuck that.
>>58136671
No, because lusitanians were gone long time ago and their lands were under islamic occupation. Gallaecians still existed and you spoke galician-portuguese, not lusitanian.
>>58137528
Then change the name to Iberia and we still using Spain
England - land of the Engs
>>58136285
>>58136481
>>58136504
Holt is middle Dutch for wood, see German "Holz".
Holtland -> Holland
>>58137528
And when they tried to get rid of us and make it all Spain at the end of the Iberian Union, we responded accordingly.
>>58133871
but that's the name of the continent
your country's 'name' is as bad as 'South Africa'
>>58137607
Portuguese indetifying with Lusitanians is just a meme by people who don't know any better.
Some people were upset that French WUZ GAULS N SHEIT and the Portuguese were Portuguese.
Don't take it seriously. It's literally a case of WE WUZ
>>58137656
Now that would be funny.
>>58137782
Yeah, but I wonder what was thinking the guy that came with that idea.
>>58137222
Its Holanda and you know it.
>>58137855
For what I know, back then people thought Lusitania was just situated in Portugal. Later historical and archeological findings revealed that it expanded wesward and not north at all.
What he was thinking is just that. French had the Gaul meme, Portuguese wanted their own meme, so we got one. It's about claiming legitimacy to a land. It's stupid. And imo insulting even. We have no right to claim an identity that is not ours. But it stuck and grew to mean more than just Portugal to be taken back.
>>58137855
Because Viriatus was from Aveiro, and Gallecians are still a ethnic isolated group
>>58137855
there was already a land of the caelleci, galicia. The intelectuals of the time were smart and picked another group to distance ourselves from the galicians and legitimize the country.
Also, don't forget we got to extremadura first (based geraldo geraldes did it), but the king of leon wasn't no idiot and made things "right".
>>58138003
Diz Holanda quem é burro e adeptos de futebol... o que é um pouco redundante diferenciar.
O nome oficial é mesmo PaÃses Baixos.
>>58137094
because we don't occupy a region of callaecia
>>58138236
we ocupy southern caellecia (and the capital braga) and we also ocupy most lusitan lands, but not the capital (merida, I think)
>>58138236
O quê? Estas maluco?
>>58138451
Postaste o mapa errado.
>>58138451
esse é dos suevos.
pic related é um improviso mas passa a ideia
verde calaicos
azul lusitanos
>>58137356
We very rarely use that it's mostly Holanda here,
>A FUCKING TREE
>>58138090
>For what I know, back then people thought Lusitania was just situated in Portugal
Well, that makes sense.
>>58138100
No, he was from Spain. This badass statue proves it. Show me yours to make me change my mind.
>>58133582
"Place where Huitzilopochtli lives"
"Place at the Center of the Moon"
>>58139615
Shut up , the Romans said so he was born in Aveiro
"Misr" meant "country" for ancient Arabians, who have called this place by that name since long before the Islamic conquest. Eventually the other meaning disappeared entirely.
>Dominican Republic
In honor of the Order of Preachers or Order of Dominicans, a catholic order founded by the Spanish priest Saint Dominic de Guzman.
>>58137855
Camões? He was thinking about mythology, and the Lusitanians fit better with that.
Österreich
Eastern Realm
>>58140114
Where does "Austria" come from? Sounds more like "austral" meaning southern in latin, than "öster" meaning eastern in german.
Magyarország
Hungarian country
>>58140184
I suppose you get closer to pronouncing the "ö" sound with "au". But there could have been other variation like Esterland or something. The evolution of what other people call your country is an interesting thing.
For example, In Turkey and Arab countries they call Austria "Namsa". The only explanation I have found is that during the Siege of Vienna an Ottoman general noted that the Viennese weren't returning fire, and asked an attendant "nam sa?", which apprently means "are they sleeping?" in Turkish and it caught on as kind of a joke, but who knows what the real story is.
>>58140184
It's from old high German "austar" meaning eastern. Apparently the similarity to austral is just coincidence.
>>58133582
Guatemala=Goathemallan
"place of many trees"
>>58138490
>Budapest
>Water Furnace
But it's just a mash up of Buda and Pest.
It has no fucking meaning.
>>58141118
>In Turkey they call Austria "Namsa"
Ottoman Turkish: Namsa
Modern Turkish: Avusturya
>"nam sa?", which apprently means "are they sleeping?" in Turkish
nope not even close
>>58141459
I thought it was probably bullshit, but there isn't much online in English I could find on it. So why did the Ottomans call it namsa then?
>>58133582
Russia or Rus' :
1st variant: Nation founded by legendary fabulous King Rus(or Rys).
2st variant: Name going from name of tribe Lynx.
>>58141648
I found this website for language nerds (just one Google, man) and they seem to think that the Arabs and Ottomans borrowed the Slavic word for Germany (Némca, Niemcy, and it's variations) and assigned it to the Austro-Hungarians since they were the most relevant Germans at the time to the Ottomans and the Arab world. I guess they didn't feel it was necessary to differentiate between to the two.
That's my two cents anyway, and I think it's a better explanation.
>>58133781
I understand better why British are obsessed by /tg/ stuff.
struggle with god
>>58141355
maybe that's what buda and pest mean
>>58138183
>é burro e adeptos de futebol... o que é um pouco redundante diferenciar.
>>58143252
>gostar de futebol não é ser-se burro
>>58143140
I don't know.
Most of out town names mean nothing.
Budaörs is just "Buda guard"
Budafok is just "Buda degree"
Some have meaning but those are just words put after each other
Székesfehérvár is "chaired white castle"
Mosónmagyaróvár is just "on the washer hungarian old city"
They mean fucking nothing.
Maybe because we stole the words from the slavs and then mutated them.
>>58135145
>>58135878
Rike does not mean kingdom
its got the same etymology as reich and is translated into realm
Svearike = Realm of the Swedes
>>58143341
where does the word "swede" come from?
>>58135197
>El is the spanish pronoun for "him"
>>58143337
>Budafok
kek
Portu
Gay
The port of gay people
>>58143449
What is so funny about it?
>>58143337
>The origins of the names Buda and Pest are obscure. According to chronicles from the Middle Ages, the name Buda comes from the name of its founder, Bleda (Buda), brother of the Hunnic ruler Attila. The theory that "Buda" was named after a person is also supported by modern scholars.[48] An alternative explanation suggests that Buda derives from the Slavic word вoдa, voda ("water"), a translation of the Latin name Aquincum, which was the main Roman settlement in the region.[49]
>There are also several theories about the origin of the name Pest. One of the theories[50] states that the word "Pest" comes from the Roman times, since there was a fortress ("Contra-Aquincum") in this region that was referred to as "Pession" ("Î Îσσιον", iii.7.§ 2) by Ptolemaios.[51] According to another theory, Pest originates from the Slavic word for cave (most closely related to Bulgarian and Macedonian: пeщepa, peÈ™tera), or oven (Bulgarian: пeщ, peÈ™t), in reference either to a cave where fires burned or to a local limekiln.[52]
therefore: water + cave where fires burned (= furnace)
that's probably where the dudes that made the map took it from
>>58143392
oldest record of swedes are under the name of "suiones" in the Tacitus Germania from roman times.
Presumebly it was just a name they took upon themself or it was given to them by their neighbours at the time, but its a the least 2000 years old so the true origin is not known.
Official name: Valencian community: community of courage
Real name: Valencian country: land of courage
My city: from Al-laqant, official "medina laqant", arabic for ألَلَقَنْت, "old city".
Spain means land of rabbits
And both Castile and Catalonia: land of castles
Iberia could be iber (river) ia (land) or ib herria (land of iberians in iberic)
>>58143658
interesting. the romans usually gave names to the peoples they found by what other peoples called them. so it's interesting to see a case where they were the ones calling themselves that.
At the moon's navel
>Finland
Finn (not the fish :D) land
>Suomi
[X-files theme intentifies]
>>58144161
Finland means Land of the Finns not Finn land
Slav
>>58144284
hmm in english it would be like Slavistan or idk, place where Slavs live
>>58144161
isn't suomi the word for people as sapmi? or that's what I read somewhere
murcia - land of the thieves
>>58135000
>Ember
>Brasil = Braise
Mind fucking blown
Is it because brazil wood is red, so it was called that?
>>58144360
no
>>58133582
Foroyar
Sheep Islands
Probably something to do with swamps.
And we are the marshiest/swampiest country IN THE WORLD.
IIRC
>>58144536
Yes, "Brasil" comes from "brasa" (ember) and the wood of "pau-brasil" (Brazilwood) is colored red.
>>58144781
how about putting some eucalyptus? we used to be filled with swamps too until we started planting around the koala tree
land of the angles
>>58147242
What's the point?
We don't need those areas.
Just let them be.
>>58147451
why not? more agriculture
>>58147510
>agriculture
>this far up north
Yet again. What's the point?
>>58147576
well idk. we needed that space.
>>58147510
increasing agricultural land while still in the EU means thinning out the fixed sum of agricultural support, so new/reclaimed land would have to be profitable as-is with zero (0.00) euros from the state.
And dried, turned swamp isn't the best land for a few years, maybe a decade.
FINexit, let's go!
>>58133582
Canada comes from the Iroquoian word "kanata" meaning "village" or "settlement"
>>58147715
>Kanata
>Finnish pronounciation was right all along
I KNEW IT!
>>58147706
sure but when you plant eucalyptus you can't use the land for ages anyway. it's mostly used in the following decades just so you can walk and go there. it takes another 30 years for the land to settle down just so it can be remotely used for agriculture.
>>58135414
I kinda like that.
>>58138490
> Pavillon of Banknotes
Shouldn't that be in Israel?
>>58147874
We'd have to GMO the eucalyptus for extreme winters. Guess we could dig our forests full of ditches to drain them, a lot of our swamps have lakes under them.
That would dump a massive pulse of bio matter and near-acidic swamp water in to the Baltic Sea though, bye bye fishies.
>>58148213
acidic water isn't a problem in cold waters. it is a problem in waters with regular season waters, i.e. waters that get really cold in the winter and much warmer in the summer. but i don't think that's your case. also the lake aren't a problem. in fact i think the main reason your government has done this already is because eucalyptus probably doesn't grow well in there and has other ecological effects.
>>58147242
I wish we could have eucalyptus. The air in forests of Madeira is so good.
>>58148632
>the lake
the lakes
>your government has
hasn't
jesus me and my english today
>>58148938
don't plant eucalyptus,they fuck up the ecosystem.
The forest around my house has like 50% eucalyptus,sure it is handy when i go to the woods and clean my asshole with them leaves,but they dry the soil and suck all the fucking water
>>58149374
that's because we abused them because our politicians are shit tho
>winter-proof eucalyptus
>it rains all day every day all summer
>massive eucalyptus forests everywhere
Noice. Now to get some winter-proof koalas and kangaroos.
Austria: Österreich, after the first historical document that mentioned Austria as "Ostarrichi".
We don't know why it's called Ostarrichi though, it's just some place that gave Ausria it's retarded name.
>>58149734
>Australians living in Finland
Christ I can't even imagine the shitposting.
>>58149842
dude it's literally the eastern realm
>>58149969
Osten is East. If anything it would be Ostern (Easter) as Austria was sometimes referred to as Osterland (Easterland). We really don't know where "Österreich" came from, but we assume it was some historical region in Bavaria.
Some dumb italian thought the land was similar to Venice, so Venezuela literally means little venice
>>58149842
>Ostar-riichi
>>58150122
holy shit i didn't know that lmao
>>58134905
As deep as Adele rolling.
WHat is the country's perspective on enchufetv?
>>58135423
>That toughness
>that weapon
>that pose
>Would willingly be a practice target 10/7
Something about curb stomping some Brits
>>58150383
hey you're not any better, when will you retake galicia back?
>>58150619
i wasn't making fun of you, i'm sorry if i sounded like that. it's just a really amusing fact
>>58150619
>retake
>back
>implying
>>58137663
Engineers?
>>58139777
>That meaning
>Those trips
Esos triples no los tiene ni Obama, en 2016 los vamos a vender
>>58139905
Dude, the women in your country are beautiful!
>Can I have some?
>>58137663
"the land of the Angles"
>>58136871
>It's actually a pepper
>>58133582
Im not sure but i've been looking for on Internet and i found i few theories about the meaning of our country.
Land of Snakes
North Island ._. (By Africans)
Land where metals are forged
Land of Rabbits
And that's it..
>>58133582
Sort of self explanatory..
>>58133582
Catalonia.
It's uncertain, but most probably:
"Land of the Goths"
>>58153051
Or Land of Castles. Terra de Castells. Land of the Goths will be for the Dux Gothia's name if im not wrong. Also there's places who's explain that it came from Italia as the name of Lacetani but someone wrote it wrong and it changes into Catelani by somehow .. =D
>>58135000
I think "Ember-like" is closer.
>country is called ember/ember-like
>has no red on flag
>>58133582
Well, incomplete.
Portugal harkens the Harbor of the Earth, the gateway to the planet
>>58154840
So...the Stargate?
>>58153482
It could be. The goth thing should not be taken as a we wuz, tho.
Ethnically we are probably some kind of mediterranid-alpinid-french-goth rapebabies.
The theory comes from the fact that this place was ruled by Goths for a very long time.
United States of Some Italian Guy (Amerigo Vespucci)
My state is called Friend/Friendship (Teshas->Tejas->Texas)
>>58155463
>Teshas
In what language is that?
>>58156133
Cree or Caddo I think
>>58150122
I read that it was because of the Indians living in stilt houses.
>>58144662
Are there muslims in faroe islands?
>>58154191
The red is in the blood of the corageous people of this bountiful land.
