example:
Democratic People's Republic Korea
Demo = people, Cratic = ruled
Re public = thing of people
Korea = city fenced by high wall
so,
DPRK = country fenced by high wall which people owns which people owns which people owns
starts with me
Japan: place the sun rises from
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There are some Alex Jones - tier theories that it means Sunstone/Sunland but the truth is that we don't know.
muh sunny mates
Kingdom = place ruled by a king
Spain = Phoenician for "land full of rabbits"
So Kingdom of Spain = place full of rabbits and ruled by a king
Country name doesn't mean anything.
Moscow is name of the river which translates as "dirty water" from finno-ugric language.
Anglo saxophone Land
Swamp
pls respond
>Angles and Jutes and saxons created their homeland together
>named their citizen Anglo-Saxons
>named their country England
poor Saxons and Jutes...
Suomi language is too dificult for non-suomi
Field
;_;
Deutschland
Deutsch - individuals that belong to one people
Land - country
Isn't it ironic?
crop field? or just a plane?
Jutes fens and other tribes that I can't remember were sub humans anyway
plane i think
Hellas is of pre-Greek origin. (non-indoeuropean)
It is from how the people who lived around the Dodona oracle called themselves.
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Γραιkός which is the root of Greek is from the same shit from the same area.
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Aristotle explains it somewhere iirc.
so that red dot on your flag symbolizes a rising sun?
you should put two red dots then for two rising suns, one from little boy and another from fat man
you are politically wrong
they are not rising from Japan.
they fell into Japan.
interesting. i can't even imagine the citizens before the antient Greek.
were they Barbaroi or civilized?
At least you pronounced Suomi correctly unlike many others here.
What's up field? t. swamp
The Dominion (meaning to rule) of Canada (Iroquoian word meaning village).
>The rule of [the] village
Canada = Miss spelled Iroquoian word kanata meaning "village"
Flat woodland/marsh or Dan's/Danes' woodland/borderland
>implying Finnish is hard to pronounce
>tfw once got mistaken for native Finn in a vocaroo thread
Only problem I have with Suomi is the fucking r's and obviously the grammar.
*Plain
Name : France
Meaning : we're not celto-germanic
Poland = pole (field) land - country
Country of Fields.
I don't really know.
They were collectively called Pelasgians:
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But they might have been actually various different peoples.
Judging from the loanwords that gave to the Greek language,
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e.g. Musical instruments and names of metals
they seemed somewhat advanced.
Very
Brazil (Brasil) acording to wiki, it have a celtic origin, even before the "pau brasil" (a very valuable wood that could paint cloth red, a very expensive pigmentation in portugal in 1500) extraction. The legend states that brasil is a land of delicious experiences. The brasil, from pau brasil is red. It literally means that brasil is of Ember color. So i think that if you want a better meaning. Brazil is a land of wonders, and economical riches.
Ukraine
Literally borderland. In fact, it isn't even a real country.
Lýðveldið Ísland
Republic of Iceland (The land of ice)
Who knew?
desu, suomi pronounces Japanese really well
you can tell tt from t, ee from e
...
>mocskos
hmm
It means near border, not border itself, you uneducated duck.
Is it a rabbit king
what the origin of Han - guk?
is it same to the Han which means Chinese?
tunisia => the name of a certian carthagion goddess
Han for chinese comes from han dynasty, which comes from the han river
>The suffix -co is the Nahuatl locative, making the word a place name. Beyond that, the etymology is uncertain. It has been suggested that it is derived from Mextli or Mēxihtli, a secret name for the god of war and patron of the Mexica, Huitzilopochtli, in which case Mēxihco means "Place where Huitzilopochtli lives".
>Another hypothesis suggests that Mēxihco derives from a portmanteau of the Nahuatl words for "Moon" (Mētztli) and navel (xīctli). This meaning ("Place at the Center of the Moon") might refer to Tenochtitlan's position in the middle of Lake Texcoco. The system of interconnected lakes, of which Texcoco formed the center, had the form of a rabbit, which the Mesoamericans pareidolically associated with the Moon.
>Still another hypothesis suggests that the word is derived from Mēctli, the goddess of maguey.
The second hypothesis is the one most people know about and therefore most "accepted" one.
韓 is not even kan zi just take it's pronunciation
it has two means
1. goryeo, baekje, silla
2. ma han, byun han, jin han
cool
What the hell?
대한민국(大韓民國) = Republic of the Greater Han
대=Greater
한=Han (Large(big,giant) and wide)
민국=Republic
The origin of Han(한)is Three Han(삼한,三韓). three han(삼한,三韓) are Goguryeo(고구려),Baekje(백제) and Silla(신라)
Han(한)'s meaning Large(big,giant) and wide and han(한) is pure korean
For example,
The other words of Daejeon(대전) is hanbat(한밭), meaning's Large and wide field
The other words of sigh breath is Hansum(한숨) etc...
kek
ours is derived from a long-standing Latin term.
terra australis incognita = unknown southern land
It was named Terra Australis by an explorer and then Australia derived from that.
oh, i see. i thought Han(韓) has Chinese meaning
how do you distinguish Korean Han(韓) and Chinese Han(漢)?
In Japanese, both are pronounced as 'Kan' in the same way, so i misunderstood Korean Han is a word related to Chinese Han
Borealia (northern land) was considered as a name for Canada. That and Ursalia (land of bears) were my favourite possibilities.
>implying Leafland wasnt considered
federative republic of ember
context
United = gathered by a common cause
Kingdom = ruled by a king (monarch)
of = expresses the relationship between the above description of united kingdom and the parts therein
Great = better than good
Britain = us
and = as well as
Northern = towards the top of the earth
Ireland = bunch of potato-sucking troglodytes
no one mentions Joseon
Norway - Norge - Noreg
It's debated whether it means "the way north" (Norðrvegr)
or "the land along the small fjords" (Norvegr)
Can ada
To be able to ada
We called the 漢族(한족,Han jok), No called 漢民族
But Koreans are called 韓民族(한민족,Han min jok) or 한겨레(Han gyeo re)
It is distinguished by the presence of the 民(민,min
Joseon(朝鮮) is easy to see its meaning for Japanese
It has two meaning in the East Asian Common Chinese
1. 朝貢 が 鮮ない (few presents in the protocol to china)
2. 朝の鮮やかさ (vividness of the morning)
easily i guess the 2 is the meaning.
>Commonwealth
From common (as in the public) + wealth (as in wellbeing), not unlike res publica.
>Australia
Common name of the continent formerly called Terra Australis, from the classical concept of terra australis incognita (unknown southern land).
>Commonwealth of Australia
The state that exists for the common good in the southern land.
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Republic of Chile
Republic of the End of the World
or
Republic of the Cold
or
Republic of the sing of the Trile
Change named later but basically it used to be Kingdom of the Franks, Frank~something in some germanic language which gave France IIRC
Name is from the dark ages, so no one knows for sure.
Something like "glimmer" or "clearing"
Dont ppl call you also Helvetia?
Joseon(조선,朝鮮) does not exist.
joseon was last korean dynasty (1392~1910)
that's all
All Koreans called only Han!!
Korean Peninsula: 한반도(Han ban do)
Korean Traditional clothes: 한복 (Han bok)
Korean traditional House: 한옥 (Han ok)
Korean Character: 한글 (Han geul)
Korean culture syndrome: 한류 (Han Lyu or Hallyu) = Korean wave
Korea = 한국 (Han guk)
>Joseon(조선,朝鮮) does not exist.
Bhutan in their language is called Dzongkha means: the land of the Thunderdragon
>t western imperialist
Sakartvelo-land of kartvelians (Georgian endonym)
Kartveli/kart comes from some indoeuropean word for fortified area, as i recall (compare for slavic "grad" for example)
Yeah, the special snowflake latin word is Confoederatio Helvetica
Helvetia is the chick on our coins
>Helvetica
i thought it was just the font name
Suomen tasavalta
>suomi
Suo=swamp mi=???
>tasavalta
Republic
Swampmi republic
>croatia
>hrvatska
land belonging to croats
Japan = Nippon = Nihon = Hinomoto
Hi ... the sun
no ... of
moto ... origin
Japan ... the origin of the sun
we have two other names.
"Wa-koku"
Wa : small, we or calm spirits
koku: country
"Akitushima"
Akitu : dragonfly
Shima: island
>the first emperor in our myth saw the map of Japan
>say "looks like mating dragon flies "
>get named
>Slovenia
Sloveni = people of the word
Slovenia = land of the people of the word
Moska?
>people of the word
sounds so clever
Might come from "suomaa", "marsh/swamp land".
those fucker know shit so now proper Poland's name.
Poland is english name which means just land of Poles.
Poland's full name in polish is Rzeczpospolita Polska which is:
Rzecz - a thing
pospolita - common
a common thing = res publicum= republic
Polska:
pole - field, clearing or rarely literally a pole (long stick)
ska - feminine adjective
no as it comes from Slavs- Slovianie - ppl of one word.
Its Frankreich.
The French Empire or whatever you would translate "Reich" to
>the r
literally the best sound
>Rome
>Romanians' country
Canada = (Can = can do!) + (Nada = nothing).
Can do nothing.
New = New
Zealand = Zeeland, a region in the Netherlands.
New Zealand = A New Zeeland
Portugal -> Portus Cale - Port of Cale -> Port of Port
The eternal Anglo, indeed.
Can = Iroquois word for Crush
ada= Iroquois word America
Crushers of America
...
Land of Slavs
Watch it, Poland
There are a couple of names of my cunt.
>India
The English term is from Greek Ἰνδία(Indía), via Latin India. Indía in Koine Greek denoted the region beyond the Indus(Ἰνδός) river in the Indian Subcontinent, since Herodotus(5th century BC) ἡ Ἰνδιkή χώρη, hē Indikē chōrē; "the Indian land", Ἰνδός, Indos, "an Indian", from Old Persian Hinduš and listed as a conquered territory by Darius I in the Persepolis terrace inscription). The name is derived ultimately from Sindhu, the Sanskrit name of the river, but also meaning "river" generically.
>Bharat
The designation Bhārata appears in the official Sanskrit name of the country, Bhārata Gaṇarājya. The name is derived from the ancient Hindu Puranas, which refer to the land that comprises India as Bhāratavarṣa(Sanskrit: भारतवर्ष, lit. country of Bharata) and uses this term to distinguish it from other varṣas or continents. For example, the Vayu Purana says "he who conquers the whole of Bhāratavarṣa is celebrated as a samrāt (Vayu Purana 45, 86)." The Sanskrit word bhārata is a vṛddhi derivation of Bharata, which was originally an epithet of Agni. The term is a verbal noun of the Sanskrit root bhr-, "to bear / to carry", with a literal meaning of to be maintained(of fire). The root bhr is cognate with the English verb to bear and Latin ferō. This term also means "one who is engaged in search for knowledge".
>Hindustan
The name Hind(Persian: هند) is derived from the Iranian languages equivalent of Indo-Aryan Sindh. The Persian language -stān means "country" or "land" (cognate to Sanskrit sthāna "place, land").
And the final we wuz version
>Aryavarta
Āryāvarta (Sanskrit: आर्यावर्त, abode of Aryans) is a name for North India, where the culture of the Indo-Aryans was based, in classical Sanskrit literature.
I've also heard something about a mythical ancient king named Nor.
Besides, there apparently never was a "ð" in the name, which would discredit the "pathway towards the north" theory…
I read an article about it, and another argument in favour of "nór" ("fjord") and not "norðr" (north) is the oldest poetry, which rhymes it with long vowels, and not short. Which is a strong argument against "norðr", because that would require breaking the strict rules for rhyme, which they never did.
(o is a short o, ó is a long o)
>res-publica
public entity
>del
of
>Paraguay
now here the thing gets complicated:
some say it's "Payagua-y" = river of the Payagua tribe who were living there,
other say it's "para-gua-y" = river that comes from a big sea of trees (the swamp known as Pantanal),
other even argue it's "para-gua'a-y" = river of crown (gua'a = macaw, and para = feather warbonnet)
the second version is the most popular here and in Brazil, but for some reason redditors used the third version at that shit map that i didn't even bother to save. look it up if you dare
I always thought India was a European concept. Can you explain the concept of India from the perspective of someone from the subcontinent. Considering just the modern Republic of India contains so many languages/religions what does India/Bharat traditionally encompass? Pakistan? Burma? Afghanistan? Bangladesh?
>subcontinent
i want this meme to stop
no, dubs don't make it real
What do you mean? The land south of the Himalayas is a part of what was Godwana that drifted into Asia.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SUOMI
hmm, interesting
do Paraguay and Uruguay have realation?
I'm pretty stupid about these matters hopefully some other user may be able to help you. Although in pretty sure that the countries you've named are mentioned in some of our ancient texts.
I'll just tell you this that we have been taught that the concept of Bharat has always been present. I'll just post some relevant links.
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Netherlands - Low lands
mind blown I tell hwat.