Many idiotics here. I'm salvadoran and you all can't really bother lmao I see lots of white and Asian tourists walking freely on the streets here so shut up. This isn't heaven but isn't as bad as mass school shootings I guess.
For those wondering where the name Chad really comes from: The country was named after the lake Chad which got its name from a local name for lake. So the country basically is the Republic of Lake
@Mr Yeast You got the American Virgin Islands, does that count? They are in the Caribbean, but that makes them even more of a bunch of virgins anyways!
@Mr Yeast I assume as lake Chad dries up throughout the years, a few islands will definitely pop up and will be named, possibly via internet poll, as the Chad Islands. So maybe then we'll finally have a "the Virgin Islands vs the CHAD Islands"
Armenians call their country “Hayastan” or “land of Hay” and in antiquity it was referred to as “Hayq” meaning “the Hay.” Hay is said to be from the ancient Hayasa tribe (Hayasa meaning “land of Hay” in Hittite) that was around in 1500-1200 BC. The Hayasa lived in the upper reaches of the Euphrates. In Armenian mythology and folklore the nation gets its name from Hayk Nahapet (Hayk the Patriarch) who defeated the Babylonian King “Bel” (prolly Baal) in August 11, 2492 BC and established an independent state in the Armenian highlands. Btw Armenians refer to themselves as “Hay” and their language as “Hayeren.”
vicki hawke Hayk was the son of Torgarmah, son of Gomer, son of Japheth, son of Noah. So technically great-grandson I believe. But yea that legend is an old one. Hayk is also said to have to built Haykashen (Çavuştepe in Turkish), meaning “built by Hayk.” It’s in the mountains of southern modern-day Turkey in the Gürpınar District of the Van Province. The area was called “Hayots Dzor” or “valley of Hays” during the antiquity.
Imagine being called something immature like fartface and having your nation named after that. What a nightmare. Also today's saint Patric's day and no pubs are open.
@@drx1xym154 no we don't, Isreal is named after the country Isreal which was named after the tribe "the sons of Isreal which was named after Isreal. Ishmael was is brother
@@andreipop5805 Lechia is used instead of Poland in some other languages: Lithuanian: Lenkija Hungarian: Lengyelország Turkish: Lehistan (Obsolete today Polonya is officially used) Persian: Lahestan Armenian: Lehastan Interesting that the Lithuanians & Hungarians use Lechia instead of Poland. Lithuania is like Poland's ex-GF that hates Poland due to an abusive relationship in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth but Poland is fine with Lithuania because they don't understand why they hate Poland and there are nationalist that want it back which is probably bad so the unintentional abusive relationship continues I see. Hungary is Poland BFF and they never been at war and fought together (excluding WW2 where Poland joined Britain and Hungary joined Germany but both refused to fight each other) and have a Polish-Hungarian Friendship Day on the 23rd of March. I am a Native Pole living in Britain and I used stereotypes to describe my country, Lithuania and Hungary because not everyone behaviours like the stereotypes may show. Sorry if the stereotypes offended anyone they just jokes. Romania and Hungary they hate each other due to Transylvania being practically by both countries. More jokes no offence intended.
Interesting... In Ukraine, there is a legend of three brothers and their sister who founded the capital city of Kyiv. They were Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv and their syster was Lybid. Three brothers, name matches, and there was a Kievan Rus...
@@NightMind0 Interesting that there is a Ukrainian Legend of three bothers and one sister "Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv and Lybid" that founded Kyiv. From googling there is no connection with the Legend of the three bothers "Lech, Czech and Rus".
i am Turkish and in history classes we learnt (Lehistan) Lechia as an old name for Poland. We call the country Poland and its people Polish. However the language is (Lehçe) Lechian/Lechish
The name of my country, Syria, is believed to be a corruption of the name Assyria. This is what the Greeks called the land. In ancient Greek the letter "y" was pronounced "u". This means that they actually said it like this "assuria", which means land of Ashur (pronounced Assur in ancient Greek) an ancient Assyrian god.
That is what we have been taught, but in Spanish we call him Americo Vespucio. Spaniards tended to change people's names to a Spanish version during the height of the Spanish Empire. *Example: Christopher Columbus is called Cristobal Colon in Spanish. It's easy the to see that from Americo came America. Historically, the first writings about the continents now named America were in Spanish so they got naming rights. All other European empires seem to have accepted and promoted the Spanish name for the Continent "America"
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 the United States of America is widely known to as America. America is short version of United States of America. But yes, Columbus named this part of the world America. Later the continents were officially named North America and South America.
Dhruva Narayan Might be a bad translation since i Don’t speak Gaelic but if my translation is correct (Thanks Google👍): Erin Go Bragh = Ireland Forever
It is really inaccurate to say that the Rus is only directly related to Russia. The Rus was the ancestor of all 3 Belarus, Ukraine and Russia equally. Saying "The Rus went on to become Russia" And "Belarus is named after Russia" Are completely inaccurate statements. Hope you improve that in future videos.
I'm Irish and I read that there were three goddesses of the Tuatha De Danaan called Banba, Fodla or Fotla and Eire or Eiru, who arrived to Ireland and argued on who the land should be named after the land. They asked a bard to settle the matter and Eire won.
Usually the legendary founder of a tribe is a later invention. So tribes' names often just have some pragmatic root term like "humans", "people who have culture" or "rich herders" etc. And with the evolution of language these roots became obscured(or detached if it's an exonym) and legendary founders were made up. Which in essence means that the founders were named after the tribe, not vice versa.
Lava soap also gets its name from the fact that they use pumice in the soap which is a volcanic sediment made from the silica dust from pycroclasitc volcanism.
Croatia has a similar legend to Čeh, Leh and Rus. In ours, there are five brothers and two sisters that led our people from the Carpathian mountains to our new homeland. These are also most likely personifications of tribes. One of the brothers is named Hrvat, and we call our country Hrvatska. There is also a possibility that the name is Greek in origin, with Byzantine sources calling the people here "Choroatoi", meaning "those of the land" or "those that own a lot of land"
the country of Georgia is named after St. George, as in the Christian saint attributed with slaying a dragon (not to be confused with the US state of Georgia, which is named after George II of the United Kingdom from back when it was a British colony)
Papa Taurean It’s truly a special place to go to. I’ve been about five times, and there’s always something new to see. Just make sure that when you plan to visit there, keep in mind that the country is bigger than what you see on the map. Pick out a part of the country you want to see, and plan your trip around it. If you say that you want to visit Cork, Dublin, Waterford, and Kerry in one visit, you’ll exhaust yourself to no end.
@@cityhawk I think that depends on where you're from. The country is smaller than my province. If I want to go away for the weekend, it's 4 hour drive. You can easily see a bit of everything in 3 weeks. Having said that however, Ireland is the most beautiful country in the world! The people are great craic and pure class! It's where I belong and where my heart lives, even if I can't. I love you Ireland and I miss you already!
Hungary, the English name comes from the Huns whose are named after the hun tribe whose named after Hunor a legendary figure. While the native name for hungary is Magyarország (means country of Hungarians in English) which is again after a tribe named after a legendary figure named Magor. The interesting twist here is that these 2 figures are brothers and one of them came after the other to find him. Huns lived in/around the Carpathian basin before the Magyar tribe (a.k.a. Hungarians today, some people call us Huns in short still tho, Im ok with that but some may be less accepting). This is a theory as far as I know, but sounds legit enough and I never heard anything else yet. The othen theory derived from this is that the English didn't catch up on the news about the change here and continued referring to us as Huns, that's why the country is still called Hungary. This applies to almost every other nation too, for example the German "Ungarn". These all can also be a possible derivatives of the latin ungarorum (or something like that, I'm not sure about the spelling), which would be the same story as the English one but also explain why other languages are also use something similar to "huns".
Fun fact: the god's name "Thot" would be Θωθ in Kemetic IIRC (I'm no native so please leave your torches and pitchforks at home :p) Considering he was the god of writing/knowledge/etc, it wouldn't be inappropriate to ask "Θωθ what's this?" You can all hate me now.
According to some mythologies Italy was named after a demigod called Italus but probably the name means "land of calves or land of cattle' as compared to neighboring regions it was rich in pasture land.Vitello is modern Italian for "calf."
Greeks called themselves 'Romioi' ('Ρωμιοί') meaning Romans, up until the formation of the modern Greek state. And many older Greeks still use that word. This could be the name for the new country but the founders decided to use Hellas and Hellenes instead to give the sense of a new beginning, a new democratic state that didn't follow the traditions of the older empires. Unfortunately this trend evolved into historic revisionism and the blind worship of everything ancient. Modern Greeks disregard centuries of history and focus only on the classical period, conveniently bypassing everything else and tracing their lineage to the ancients. It's a disgrace and an affront to the science of history.
Norway got its name after the famous king Norman the Norweigian, a Roman general under Juilus Ceasar. He was very bad at geography, and to pride to ask for the way when he took a wrong turn on his way to Alexandria. Somehow the dude ended up in todays Oslo, at the casino they had there 2000 years ago. It is said that he lost big at Black Jack.
Tonga is named after a legendary figure from Manu’a (a small island group that is part of ancient Samoa) named Tu’imanuka (King of Manu’a) Tongafusifonua.
I love how Scotland (a country named after the Scotii Tribe, which is named after a Legendary Irish Person) have an alternative etymology for Ireland 😂😅 “You didn’t name our country, In fact, we named yours, yeah that is it...” 🤣 well played Scotland, well played
Scotti was actually just a Latin roman name for the Irish people not one mythical figure. And Scotland use to be called Minor scotia meaning little Ireland xD Scotland literally means land of the Irish. So of course the scots tried to do a bit of revisionism lol Even their declaration of their country says they're from Ireland and Scottish historians tried to remove it when translating the document.
John McCassidy you have sparked my interest check that out 🧐🤔 Latin word Scotti may have came before the pseudo history figure Scotia alright 😅 I suppose she was made up around the 13th Century 😅 you can actually visit her Grave in Kerry 🧐 I must find my copy “History of the Irish Race”, load of nonsense, but pseudohistory and myth can make a really good read 😅😄 thanks
@@seanthebeure Yeah lol The mythical races nonsense, some people actually believe the firbolg were real xD Scotti was what the Romans called the Irish people. Scotti doesn't have any root word in old Irish as far a we know, so I'm guessing it was invented by the Romans to refer to the Irish and not by the Irish themselves until after the fact. Also interestingly the Romans considered parts of Wales and Scotland as Irish territory and part of Ireland. Hiberni is what the Scots probably called themselves. Also Fergus mor maceric is considered the father of Scotland in Scotland's oldest mythology he was from Ireland and his father was king of dal riada in Ireland before moving to Britain creating Scotland and the scottish people there so to speak. All of this stuff can't be a mere coincidence x[D Not sure how real Fergus was, but it's clear he's based off a real person and a historical reality reflected at the time, the myth seems to be very old possibly early dark ages. Fergus was portrayed in the movie brave by Billy Connolly. books.google.be/books?id=ZSHhfOM-5AEC&pg=PA91 Page 92
Eire is also where we get the name Erin as in "Erin Go Bragh!" which basically means "Ireland Forever." My daughter's middle name is Erin cuz I wanted to honor my Irish ancestry. And I just like the name Erin.
Greece (Hellas) , took it's name from the legendary first Greek , who was called Hellen (not to be confused with the female name Helene) henceforth the Greeks ( Hellenes) took their name after him
Hellenes is honestly better then Greeks! But the name for greeks (in other languages) comes from etruscan name for one of greek colonies in the south of Italy.
@@daca8395 I am not to argue that Greece is used more in English , however Hellas is also used in English , even the official name of the country of "Greece" in English is Hellas - Hellenic Republic :ρ
Greece in Greek is Hellas , Hellas was named after Hellen the son of Deucalion (the Greek Noah) while Egypt was named after Aegyptus who had 50 sons and they were murdered by their wives/cousins .
Polish is called Lehçe in turkish and I always wondered what Leh was or why it was called Leh. Now I know (btw çe is the attachment for ish in Turkish or Türk- çe)
Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but the endonym for Armenia is "Hayastan" which is based on the legendary forefather of the Armenian people - Hayk.
Bolivia was named after Simon Bolivar- the legendary, revolutionary figure who spearheaded the independence of South America from Spanish colonial forces
I may have had this rant in your comments before, but Scottish-Gaelic (Gàidhlig) is pronounced Gaa-lick. This is in spite of the fact that Gael/Gàidheal rhymes with Gale (more or less). We are small in number, but we're a feisty bunch. Gay-lick means Irish Gaelic (Gaelge). Good video (as always) otherwise
There's actually 4 dialects of Irish, Gaelige is only one of them. Gaelic, (Gaylick) refers to all Irish culture. You're however right, Gaylick is Irish and Gah lick is scottish.
Israel is named after Jacob who became named Israel later in life and whose tribe became known as the Israelites. The translation of the name Israel is disputed: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_(name) Colombia: Christopher Columbus You mentioned Bolivia, but could have explained in more detail. Simon Bolivar was a major figure in gaining independence from Spain for several countries in northern South America. Then there's all the "Saint" countries: Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts & Nevis, and Sao Tomé and Principé. And the English (and other European language) name "Georgia" is used because of the strong association of Saint George with the country in the first millennium AD, although in the native language it's Sakartvelo.
The island of Savai'i in Sāmoa is supposedly named after the progeny of the God Tagaloa, and the cognate of the name is found throughout Polynesia, but the story being changed. Such as in Hawai'i being named after Hawai'i loa a navigator. Sāmoa is named after a clan. The central/torso or integral clan that other branch off of. It's the exact translation of the name Sāmoa, the clan that is central. So if you look at a map of Polynesia, and see where Sāmoa is in reference to the other islands inhabited by Polynesians and Polynesian outliers, Sāmoa lies in the center, and many islands trace thier roots back to Sāmoa in some way. The island Maui in the Hawai'i group is named after the legendary Kupua Maui. And I think all the islands are actually children of Haumea, a Goddess, and would be siblings of Pele the volcano Goddess.
3:10 Lus founding the lus tribe | subtitles: Loose finding the lost tribe 8:48 Eloo wiv eloo been vu meychrun | subtitles: A loo with heirloom bean and matron Why does he pronounce 'R's as 'L's when saying words in different languages? When he's speaking English he says 'R's normally why can't he do the same with other languages?
it's because he's trying to say a flipped or rolled "r" (as would be correct for Spanish, Irish or Russian) but it's coming out as a "light l" instead. This is a common problem for British English speakers, as they aren't used to pronouncing any kind of rhotic sound at all. To an American, the way that British people say "ran" and "road" sound like "wan" and "woad". This is a process that has been going on for the past 500 years in Britain: as a result of the influence of Norman French. The completely "r-less" accent that eventually became modern British English though became popular in the 1770s. You know what else happened in the 1770s? The American Revolution. Under influence from German, Italian, Irish and Scottish dialects of English, and Mexican Spanish: American English never lost it's "r" completely. Except in Boston. If you ever go there, expect to hear "jahve it uh pack it!" shouted at you frequently. This means "drive it [your car] or park it!". This indicates that you are going at a legal and safe speed for the road you are on :D.
Bellarus isn't named after Russia, but both countries are named after Ruś - a past country that spanned terrains of parts of today's Ukraine, Bellarus and Russia. Those parts were named Yellow Ruś, White Ruś and Black Ruś. Rus isn't founder of Russia, but of Kievan Rus. Which inheritance lays in Ukraine. They just didn't feel like being called Rus as 3rd country in the region and Polish name for their region was more widely used, so they stuck with it. Btw. Ukraine (pl.: Ukraina) means "borderland". As it was a border with two enemies Russia and Ottomans.
if you mean the pronunciation to be "lah-veh" (rather than "luv") then that makes the etymology even more credible. Also, the demonym is "laotian" which argues for original *Lavat, and that certainly seems Indian in origin. We only use the suffix "tian" for words that either end in "t" (e.g. Christian) or where a final "s" represents a stem ending with "t" (e.g. Martian). If the stem ended in "s", we would expect "laosene" (as with "kerosene" from Greek "keros"=wax). Getting "laos" from "lavat" is pretty easy: with v>w>_ being a very common sound change progression. While no Indo-European language would retain a word with "ao" in it (a Germanic language like English would make it "au" if it wasn't a country's name), the vernacular in this country is non-Indo-European.
The hindi name of india is भारत (BHAARAT) which is said to be named on a person named भरत (bharat)who is said to be the son of a king called Dushyant .... Though there is also another legend that the person named bharat is also said to be the son of the jain tirthankar shri rishabhdev
Hungary's name is like Russias. Got it from a the founder of the people. Hungary in hungaryan is Magyarorszász (it consist of Magyar (hungaryan and "ország" whit's means "land, country of sby). The hungaryan tribe name after the the bigest tribe: Magyar. Whit's came from the founder: Magor (his brother was hunor, anchestor of the huns and there father was Nimród the giant, who builted the tower of Babel for some reason). So it is count as such.
I spent most of my life in a town called Nacogdoches (Nack Uh Dough Chess) which was named after one of two legendary native american brothers. They both were told by their father to travel for 3 days and set up their own villages. Nacogdoches went west and his brother Nachitoches (Nack Uh Tish) went east. Nacogdoches wound up settling in what is now East Texas and his brother settled in what is now Louisiana. It makes for an interesting story, but there is no real evidence of these two brothers being real other than the two towns bearing their names to this day. Nacogdoches is now the oldest established town in Texas and I believe Nachitoches is the oldest in Louisiana. This is the story I was told in my Texas History class back in 7th grade.
Greece is called Hellada or Hellas in greek and it is named after the Hellines (greeks) who are named after Hellinas, the progenitor of the greeks. The myth (as I know it) goes like this: At some point, the humans enraged Zeus and he sent a flood on the world. The only ones to survive were Deucalion and his wife, sailing in a boat wich, at the end of the flood rested on the peak of the mountain Parnassos Αfter the flood they were desperate as to how they would restart humanity, because they were both very old. So the gods told Deucalion and his wife to pick up some stones and throw them behind them as they walk. Τhey did, and each rock they threw became a human, the rocks from Deucalion became men and the ones from his wife became women. Hellinas was the man that came from the first rock Deucalion threw.
You missed a big one (big name - tiny country). Israel is named after the tribe of Israel, named after Jacob. In the bible, Jacob (whose name means "follower") has a one on one fist fight with an angel (this story is known as 'Jacob's ladder'). Jacob wins the fight and is given the name Israel - the one the fought god.
Eire likely comes from an older Celtic word meaning ‘fertile’ or ‘fat’ likely referring to the lands fertile fields. That proto Celtic word being Fiweryon (pretty much all later Celtic languages dropped the F)
Croatia, in my (native) language Hrvatska, was named after Hrvat, one of the 7 legendary siblings that lead the croatian people from White Croatia(southern Poland) to where we are now (as the legend says)
JF Salles no, it doesn’t. It’s unclear whether the Hellenes and Hellen have a common root, but oftentimes the aspirated E in Héllenes is expressed as Séllenes, which might also be connected to Seléne, the ma,e of the moon and some minor goddess or mythological person
Cecil Rhodes. =Rhodisia. After independence in April 1980 then now Zimbabwe. 20 years later, 1999 The president, Robert Mugabe told western grand grand children of white Zimbabweans, that we are going to share the land and natural resources of the country for the benefit of all citizens. Since then 20 years later Zimbabwe is under sanctions from the USA and Europe.
Sri Lanka was named after a mythical legendary person called Lanka- the name Lanka comes from the epic tale of Ramayana and Sri is just Honourable title in Sanskrit like saying sir
Have you been to/are in any of these nations?
I'm from Ireland
I'm from Waterford in Ireland
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I wonder if El Salvador would get more tourism if their official international name was changed to "Jesusland."
or if they stopped leading the murder per capita rankings
@@Enric. Hey, maybe they'd just pull further ahead. Lots of killing is done in Jesus' name.
God loves killing people and animals, so it makes sense that his son would enjoy it too.
Jesus Christ, it's Jesusland!
Many idiotics here. I'm salvadoran and you all can't really bother lmao I see lots of white and Asian tourists walking freely on the streets here so shut up. This isn't heaven but isn't as bad as mass school shootings I guess.
Ashur ==> ashuria ==> Assyria ==> syria
im pretty sure the figure was named after the country land thing tho
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This is what I got from names.org
From Latin Syria, from Ancient Greek Συρία ( Suría), ultimately from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, “ Assur”
@@karlmarx920 Ashur was a god eponymous with his holy city of Ashur. We aren't sure if the city or god is older
Human Ashur from the Bible was named after the Assyrians who worshipped divine Ashur
@@piotrgrabowski5334 I don't know much about this subject despite being syrian, which is a shame :)
The legendary *Chad.*
The even more legendary "hanging chad."
For those wondering where the name Chad really comes from: The country was named after the lake Chad which got its name from a local name for lake. So the country basically is the Republic of Lake
@Mr Yeast You got the American Virgin Islands, does that count?
They are in the Caribbean, but that makes them even more of a bunch of virgins anyways!
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Ah yes! Republic of Lake, named after Lake Lake, real close to the Deserts Desert in the Land of the Afri
@Mr Yeast I assume as lake Chad dries up throughout the years, a few islands will definitely pop up and will be named, possibly via internet poll, as the Chad Islands.
So maybe then we'll finally have a "the Virgin Islands vs the CHAD Islands"
Armenians call their country “Hayastan” or “land of Hay” and in antiquity it was referred to as “Hayq” meaning “the Hay.” Hay is said to be from the ancient Hayasa tribe (Hayasa meaning “land of Hay” in Hittite) that was around in 1500-1200 BC. The Hayasa lived in the upper reaches of the Euphrates. In Armenian mythology and folklore the nation gets its name from Hayk Nahapet (Hayk the Patriarch) who defeated the Babylonian King “Bel” (prolly Baal) in August 11, 2492 BC and established an independent state in the Armenian highlands. Btw Armenians refer to themselves as “Hay” and their language as “Hayeren.”
I find it mind-blowing how the term "hay" has stayed in Indo-European languages for so long
Hay was also the grandson of noah
vicki hawke Hayk was the son of Torgarmah, son of Gomer, son of Japheth, son of Noah. So technically great-grandson I believe. But yea that legend is an old one. Hayk is also said to have to built Haykashen (Çavuştepe in Turkish), meaning “built by Hayk.” It’s in the mountains of southern modern-day Turkey in the Gürpınar District of the Van Province. The area was called “Hayots Dzor” or “valley of Hays” during the antiquity.
Bruh I read “Armenians” as “Americans”
@Jay Blake Because Romans are weird
India is called as Bharata in native languages and is named after the first emperor or legendary emperor of India Bharat
Underliked comment, ngl
Imagine being called something immature like fartface and having your nation named after that.
What a nightmare.
Also today's saint Patric's day and no pubs are open.
I'm Irish. Was promised a St. Paddy's party while in a recovery home. Now that's cancelled. I'm sad.
@@steele_heart77 happy Paddy's day
@@caxzrockz Happy St. Paddy's!
@@caxzrockz Happy St. Paddy's day!!
@HaywireOfAlba _Did you just knock Guiness?_
There is also Israel which is named after a biblical character
They call him Ishmael or Raphael or the space cowboy...
gangster of secrets
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@@drx1xym154 no we don't, Isreal is named after the country Isreal which was named after the tribe "the sons of Isreal which was named after Isreal.
Ishmael was is brother
@@user-jt8eu7zi2q his uncle, actually
The city Bucharest is named after a legendary shepard called Bucur :)
No Bucharest is named by albanians it means Bukur ështe which means *it is beautiful*
I have my doubts on the Albanian etymology, ngl
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Lechia is an unofficial nickname for Poland after Lech as in "Lech, Czech & Rus" Legend.
Lechia (Poland), Czechia & Russia
Hmmmm
An old Romanian name for Poland was "Țara Leşilor" (country of the Poles) and a Pole would be "Leah".
This is interesting.
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Lechia is used instead of Poland in some other languages:
Lithuanian: Lenkija
Hungarian: Lengyelország
Turkish: Lehistan (Obsolete today Polonya is officially used)
Persian: Lahestan
Armenian: Lehastan
Interesting that the Lithuanians & Hungarians use Lechia instead of Poland. Lithuania is like Poland's ex-GF that hates Poland due to an abusive relationship in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth but Poland is fine with Lithuania because they don't understand why they hate Poland and there are nationalist that want it back which is probably bad so the unintentional abusive relationship continues I see. Hungary is Poland BFF and they never been at war and fought together (excluding WW2 where Poland joined Britain and Hungary joined Germany but both refused to fight each other) and have a Polish-Hungarian Friendship Day on the 23rd of March.
I am a Native Pole living in Britain and I used stereotypes to describe my country, Lithuania and Hungary because not everyone behaviours like the stereotypes may show. Sorry if the stereotypes offended anyone they just jokes.
Romania and Hungary they hate each other due to Transylvania being practically by both countries. More jokes no offence intended.
Interesting... In Ukraine, there is a legend of three brothers and their sister who founded the capital city of Kyiv. They were Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv and their syster was Lybid. Three brothers, name matches, and there was a Kievan Rus...
@@NightMind0
Interesting that there is a Ukrainian Legend of three bothers and one sister "Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv and Lybid" that founded Kyiv. From googling there is no connection with the Legend of the three bothers "Lech, Czech and Rus".
i am Turkish and in history classes we learnt (Lehistan) Lechia as an old name for Poland. We call the country Poland and its people Polish. However the language is (Lehçe) Lechian/Lechish
Israel in names after the ancient patriarch Jacob who also went by Israel a name given to him by an angel after he fought with him to a standstill
True. The spelling hasn't even changed.
From Hebrew: Israel means he who struggles with both God and men
Hello from Èire. USA just added us to a no fly list today lol. Great content. Keep up the good etymology. Happy Paddies day.
Nice backwards fada there pal
Howdy from the U.S......It's nothing personal.....
@@seanhegarty7447 Another succsessfully educated byproduct of the education system.
The name of my country, Syria, is believed to be a corruption of the name Assyria. This is what the Greeks called the land. In ancient Greek the letter "y" was pronounced "u". This means that they actually said it like this "assuria", which means land of Ashur (pronounced Assur in ancient Greek) an ancient Assyrian god.
What is Syria called in Syria?
@@ruawhitepaw Suriah
Pretty sure America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, a famous cartographer who made Columbus's map
That is what we have been taught, but in Spanish we call him Americo Vespucio. Spaniards tended to change people's names to a Spanish version during the height of the Spanish Empire. *Example: Christopher Columbus is called Cristobal Colon in Spanish.
It's easy the to see that from Americo came America. Historically, the first writings about the continents now named America were in Spanish so they got naming rights. All other European empires seem to have accepted and promoted the Spanish name for the Continent "America"
Amerigo had a daughter named America. That is the young lady America was named after
America is a continent, not a country
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 the United States of America is widely known to as America. America is short version of United States of America.
But yes, Columbus named this part of the world America. Later the continents were officially named North America and South America.
not legendary tho. Also, he wasn't related to Columbus' expedition.
Me: **sees thumbnail**
Me: *_ERIN GO BRAGH!!!_*
🤘🏻RAISING OUR CLAIDHEAMH-MÒR WE’LL SEND THEM BELOW🗡
Claíomh Solais
Translation please
@@heathenfire IRELAND FOREVER!!! WEAR THE GREEN!!! ARMALITES FOR ALL!!! I'M A REBEL!!!
Dhruva Narayan
Might be a bad translation since i Don’t speak Gaelic but if my translation is correct (Thanks Google👍): Erin Go Bragh = Ireland Forever
It is really inaccurate to say that the Rus is only directly related to Russia.
The Rus was the ancestor of all 3 Belarus, Ukraine and Russia equally.
Saying
"The Rus went on to become Russia"
And
"Belarus is named after Russia"
Are completely inaccurate statements.
Hope you improve that in future videos.
The Rus was a name of Finnish origin to refer to the Vikings who came to live in the lands where those Slavic people lived
Rus was now used in Slavic for Russia and Belarus
I'm Irish and I read that there were three goddesses of the Tuatha De Danaan called Banba, Fodla or Fotla and
Eire or Eiru, who arrived to Ireland and argued on who the land should be named after the land. They asked a bard to settle the matter and Eire won.
Imagine it being named Fodland lol.. Thank god it's Eire.
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Usually the legendary founder of a tribe is a later invention. So tribes' names often just have some pragmatic root term like "humans", "people who have culture" or "rich herders" etc. And with the evolution of language these roots became obscured(or detached if it's an exonym) and legendary founders were made up. Which in essence means that the founders were named after the tribe, not vice versa.
So about Buti (bear) and a metal cooking pot - it can be connected through a big bear constellation.
I'm a fluent speaker of Irish and just wanted to tell you you pronounced Éire wrong
It's pronounced air-ah
Irish is not a language.
Alexander Fraser Gaeilge is the language
Wow thanks man! :p
@@mredser76 Its not a language!
Alexander Fraser It is a language I’m fluent in it
Lava soap also gets its name from the fact that they use pumice in the soap which is a volcanic sediment made from the silica dust from pycroclasitc volcanism.
Croatia has a similar legend to Čeh, Leh and Rus. In ours, there are five brothers and two sisters that led our people from the Carpathian mountains to our new homeland. These are also most likely personifications of tribes. One of the brothers is named Hrvat, and we call our country Hrvatska. There is also a possibility that the name is Greek in origin, with Byzantine sources calling the people here "Choroatoi", meaning "those of the land" or "those that own a lot of land"
the country of Georgia is named after St. George, as in the Christian saint attributed with slaying a dragon (not to be confused with the US state of Georgia, which is named after George II of the United Kingdom from back when it was a British colony)
In the section about people of Laos.
The character referred from Ramayana is "Luv" son of Ram not "Lava"
I would love to visit these countries, especially Ireland.
Papa Taurean It’s truly a special place to go to. I’ve been about five times, and there’s always something new to see. Just make sure that when you plan to visit there, keep in mind that the country is bigger than what you see on the map. Pick out a part of the country you want to see, and plan your trip around it. If you say that you want to visit Cork, Dublin, Waterford, and Kerry in one visit, you’ll exhaust yourself to no end.
@@cityhawk I think that depends on where you're from. The country is smaller than my province. If I want to go away for the weekend, it's 4 hour drive. You can easily see a bit of everything in 3 weeks.
Having said that however, Ireland is the most beautiful country in the world! The people are great craic and pure class! It's where I belong and where my heart lives, even if I can't. I love you Ireland and I miss you already!
Hungary, the English name comes from the Huns whose are named after the hun tribe whose named after Hunor a legendary figure. While the native name for hungary is Magyarország (means country of Hungarians in English) which is again after a tribe named after a legendary figure named Magor. The interesting twist here is that these 2 figures are brothers and one of them came after the other to find him. Huns lived in/around the Carpathian basin before the Magyar tribe (a.k.a. Hungarians today, some people call us Huns in short still tho, Im ok with that but some may be less accepting). This is a theory as far as I know, but sounds legit enough and I never heard anything else yet. The othen theory derived from this is that the English didn't catch up on the news about the change here and continued referring to us as Huns, that's why the country is still called Hungary. This applies to almost every other nation too, for example the German "Ungarn". These all can also be a possible derivatives of the latin ungarorum (or something like that, I'm not sure about the spelling), which would be the same story as the English one but also explain why other languages are also use something similar to "huns".
Of all of your videos this is probably the last one where I expected you to mention my country. Greetings from El Salvador!
Fun fact: the god's name "Thot" would be Θωθ in Kemetic IIRC (I'm no native so please leave your torches and pitchforks at home :p)
Considering he was the god of writing/knowledge/etc, it wouldn't be inappropriate to ask "Θωθ what's this?"
You can all hate me now.
Top comment worthy
That's in Greek
@@piotrgrabowski5334 (Kemetic is usually written in the Greek script)
OwO
According to some mythologies Italy was named after a demigod called Italus but probably the name means "land of calves or land of cattle' as compared to neighboring regions it was rich in pasture land.Vitello is modern Italian for "calf."
Greeks called themselves 'Romioi' ('Ρωμιοί') meaning Romans, up until the formation of the modern Greek state. And many older Greeks still use that word. This could be the name for the new country but the founders decided to use Hellas and Hellenes instead to give the sense of a new beginning, a new democratic state that didn't follow the traditions of the older empires.
Unfortunately this trend evolved into historic revisionism and the blind worship of everything ancient. Modern Greeks disregard centuries of history and focus only on the classical period, conveniently bypassing everything else and tracing their lineage to the ancients. It's a disgrace and an affront to the science of history.
Aaand that's a hater
Well, I'm sorry man but there are facts to back the ancient origin of hellenes
Thank you for this video
Norway got its name after the famous king Norman the Norweigian, a Roman general under Juilus Ceasar. He was very bad at geography, and to pride to ask for the way when he took a wrong turn on his way to Alexandria. Somehow the dude ended up in todays Oslo, at the casino they had there 2000 years ago. It is said that he lost big at Black Jack.
Phillipenes: Names as king Phillip El Salvador: Named after Jesus Turkey: Names after the Turkish Brazil: *S T I C K*
Tonga is named after a legendary figure from Manu’a (a small island group that is part of ancient Samoa) named Tu’imanuka (King of Manu’a) Tongafusifonua.
Fun fact, in Persian, Poland is called lehestan, which comes from lech
Skip to 3:58 to get to him talking about countries named after legendary people.
I love how Scotland (a country named after the Scotii Tribe, which is named after a Legendary Irish Person) have an alternative etymology for Ireland 😂😅 “You didn’t name our country, In fact, we named yours, yeah that is it...” 🤣 well played Scotland, well played
Scotti was actually just a Latin roman name for the Irish people not one mythical figure. And Scotland use to be called Minor scotia meaning little Ireland xD Scotland literally means land of the Irish. So of course the scots tried to do a bit of revisionism lol Even their declaration of their country says they're from Ireland and Scottish historians tried to remove it when translating the document.
John McCassidy you have sparked my interest check that out 🧐🤔 Latin word Scotti may have came before the pseudo history figure Scotia alright 😅 I suppose she was made up around the 13th Century 😅 you can actually visit her Grave in Kerry 🧐 I must find my copy “History of the Irish Race”, load of nonsense, but pseudohistory and myth can make a really good read 😅😄 thanks
@@seanthebeure Yeah lol The mythical races nonsense, some people actually believe the firbolg were real xD Scotti was what the Romans called the Irish people. Scotti doesn't have any root word in old Irish as far a we know, so I'm guessing it was invented by the Romans to refer to the Irish and not by the Irish themselves until after the fact. Also interestingly the Romans considered parts of Wales and Scotland as Irish territory and part of Ireland. Hiberni is what the Scots probably called themselves. Also Fergus mor maceric is considered the father of Scotland in Scotland's oldest mythology he was from Ireland and his father was king of dal riada in Ireland before moving to Britain creating Scotland and the scottish people there so to speak. All of this stuff can't be a mere coincidence x[D Not sure how real Fergus was, but it's clear he's based off a real person and a historical reality reflected at the time, the myth seems to be very old possibly early dark ages. Fergus was portrayed in the movie brave by Billy Connolly. books.google.be/books?id=ZSHhfOM-5AEC&pg=PA91 Page 92
San Marino, Afghanistan, Spain and Protugal have buildings on their flags too.
If you count Gibraltar as a then it does
Thank you for pronouncing Eire correctly, with the slender R, most Irish people say it wrong, they say air-ah.
This video I’m watching right now is legendary
Well for your part two video:Israel.
The nation and the state named after Jacob second name "Israel".
הי
Eire is also where we get the name Erin as in "Erin Go Bragh!" which basically means "Ireland Forever." My daughter's middle name is Erin cuz I wanted to honor my Irish ancestry. And I just like the name Erin.
Greece (Hellas) , took it's name from the legendary first Greek , who was called Hellen (not to be confused with the female name Helene) henceforth the Greeks ( Hellenes) took their name after him
Hellenes is honestly better then Greeks!
But the name for greeks (in other languages) comes from etruscan name for one of greek colonies in the south of Italy.
@@daca8395 I am not to argue that Greece is used more in English , however Hellas is also used in English , even the official name of the country of "Greece" in English is Hellas - Hellenic Republic :ρ
@@Thund3rStorm3r I prefer calling you guys by your real name😊🇬🇷
Lmao I'm salvadoran thanks for the mention. Nice video btw.
Not a country, but there's the whole Amazon Forest!
Greece in Greek is Hellas , Hellas was named after Hellen the son of Deucalion (the Greek Noah) while Egypt was named after Aegyptus who had 50 sons and they were murdered by their wives/cousins .
what about St. Lucia?
... wasn't it named after Columbus vessel?
make a video or series of videos explaining your Patreon supporters names or last names
Some trivia: Persian King Kambujiya (called Cambyses in Greek) is thought by some scholars to share his name's etymology with Cambodia.
Polish is called Lehçe in turkish and I always wondered what Leh was or why it was called Leh. Now I know (btw çe is the attachment for ish in Turkish or Türk- çe)
Someone gonna tell him that the S in Laos is silent???
I just did, before I saw your comment. Sabai dee.
Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but the endonym for Armenia is "Hayastan" which is based on the legendary forefather of the Armenian people - Hayk.
Bolivia was named after Simon Bolivar- the legendary, revolutionary figure who spearheaded the independence of South America from Spanish colonial forces
i’m salvadoran and i have to say... i will never not get giddy about hearing about us bc so many people don’t know about us :D
Éire is in Irish (Gaeilge).
I may have had this rant in your comments before, but Scottish-Gaelic (Gàidhlig) is pronounced Gaa-lick. This is in spite of the fact that Gael/Gàidheal rhymes with Gale (more or less). We are small in number, but we're a feisty bunch.
Gay-lick means Irish Gaelic (Gaelge).
Good video (as always) otherwise
There's actually 4 dialects of Irish, Gaelige is only one of them. Gaelic, (Gaylick) refers to all Irish culture. You're however right, Gaylick is Irish and Gah lick is scottish.
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Israel is named after Jacob who became named Israel later in life and whose tribe became known as the Israelites. The translation of the name Israel is disputed: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_(name)
Colombia: Christopher Columbus
You mentioned Bolivia, but could have explained in more detail. Simon Bolivar was a major figure in gaining independence from Spain for several countries in northern South America.
Then there's all the "Saint" countries: Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts & Nevis, and Sao Tomé and Principé.
And the English (and other European language) name "Georgia" is used because of the strong association of Saint George with the country in the first millennium AD, although in the native language it's Sakartvelo.
The island of Savai'i in Sāmoa is supposedly named after the progeny of the God Tagaloa, and the cognate of the name is found throughout Polynesia, but the story being changed. Such as in Hawai'i being named after Hawai'i loa a navigator. Sāmoa is named after a clan. The central/torso or integral clan that other branch off of. It's the exact translation of the name Sāmoa, the clan that is central. So if you look at a map of Polynesia, and see where Sāmoa is in reference to the other islands inhabited by Polynesians and Polynesian outliers, Sāmoa lies in the center, and many islands trace thier roots back to Sāmoa in some way. The island Maui in the Hawai'i group is named after the legendary Kupua Maui. And I think all the islands are actually children of Haumea, a Goddess, and would be siblings of Pele the volcano Goddess.
6:31 I’m pretty sure the flag of San Marino has a castle on it
Im so happy that you talk about the great King Dan of Danmark🇩🇰
3:10 Lus founding the lus tribe | subtitles: Loose finding the lost tribe
8:48 Eloo wiv eloo been vu meychrun | subtitles: A loo with heirloom bean and matron
Why does he pronounce 'R's as 'L's when saying words in different languages? When he's speaking English he says 'R's normally why can't he do the same with other languages?
it's because he's trying to say a flipped or rolled "r" (as would be correct for Spanish, Irish or Russian) but it's coming out as a "light l" instead. This is a common problem for British English speakers, as they aren't used to pronouncing any kind of rhotic sound at all. To an American, the way that British people say "ran" and "road" sound like "wan" and "woad".
This is a process that has been going on for the past 500 years in Britain: as a result of the influence of Norman French. The completely "r-less" accent that eventually became modern British English though became popular in the 1770s. You know what else happened in the 1770s? The American Revolution. Under influence from German, Italian, Irish and Scottish dialects of English, and Mexican Spanish: American English never lost it's "r" completely.
Except in Boston. If you ever go there, expect to hear "jahve it uh pack it!" shouted at you frequently. This means "drive it [your car] or park it!". This indicates that you are going at a legal and safe speed for the road you are on :D.
Bellarus isn't named after Russia, but both countries are named after Ruś - a past country that spanned terrains of parts of today's Ukraine, Bellarus and Russia. Those parts were named Yellow Ruś, White Ruś and Black Ruś.
Rus isn't founder of Russia, but of Kievan Rus. Which inheritance lays in Ukraine. They just didn't feel like being called Rus as 3rd country in the region and Polish name for their region was more widely used, so they stuck with it. Btw. Ukraine (pl.: Ukraina) means "borderland". As it was a border with two enemies Russia and Ottomans.
I love your vids
By the way, Ireland, happy st.Patrick's day...
You didn't mention Israel.
Good call,we don't want another demonetised video :)
The name "Lava" is actualy pronounced "Love" the son of Ram
if you mean the pronunciation to be "lah-veh" (rather than "luv") then that makes the etymology even more credible. Also, the demonym is "laotian" which argues for original *Lavat, and that certainly seems Indian in origin. We only use the suffix "tian" for words that either end in "t" (e.g. Christian) or where a final "s" represents a stem ending with "t" (e.g. Martian). If the stem ended in "s", we would expect "laosene" (as with "kerosene" from Greek "keros"=wax). Getting "laos" from "lavat" is pretty easy: with v>w>_ being a very common sound change progression. While no Indo-European language would retain a word with "ao" in it (a Germanic language like English would make it "au" if it wasn't a country's name), the vernacular in this country is non-Indo-European.
The most funny things of this videos is see the guy triying to pronounce things in spanish. Great job tho
What about Greece (Ελλάδα)??
Ονομάστηκε από τον γενάρχη Έλλην, γιος του Δευκαλίωνα
The hindi name of india is भारत (BHAARAT) which is said to be named on a person named भरत (bharat)who is said to be the son of a king called Dushyant ....
Though there is also another legend that the person named bharat is also said to be the son of the jain tirthankar shri rishabhdev
Hungary's name is like Russias. Got it from a the founder of the people.
Hungary in hungaryan is Magyarorszász (it consist of Magyar (hungaryan and "ország" whit's means "land, country of sby). The hungaryan tribe name after the the bigest tribe: Magyar. Whit's came from the founder: Magor (his brother was hunor, anchestor of the huns and there father was Nimród the giant, who builted the tower of Babel for some reason). So it is count as such.
Do you research History only in Caramsin version?
I spent most of my life in a town called Nacogdoches (Nack Uh Dough Chess) which was named after one of two legendary native american brothers. They both were told by their father to travel for 3 days and set up their own villages. Nacogdoches went west and his brother Nachitoches (Nack Uh Tish) went east. Nacogdoches wound up settling in what is now East Texas and his brother settled in what is now Louisiana. It makes for an interesting story, but there is no real evidence of these two brothers being real other than the two towns bearing their names to this day. Nacogdoches is now the oldest established town in Texas and I believe Nachitoches is the oldest in Louisiana. This is the story I was told in my Texas History class back in 7th grade.
Greece is called Hellada or Hellas in greek and it is named after the Hellines (greeks) who are named after Hellinas, the progenitor of the greeks.
The myth (as I know it) goes like this: At some point, the humans enraged Zeus and he sent a flood on the world.
The only ones to survive were Deucalion and his wife, sailing in a boat wich, at the end of the flood rested on the peak of the mountain Parnassos
Αfter the flood they were desperate as to how they would restart humanity, because they were both very old.
So the gods told Deucalion and his wife to pick up some stones and throw them behind them as they walk. Τhey did, and each rock they threw became a human,
the rocks from Deucalion became men and the ones from his wife became women.
Hellinas was the man that came from the first rock Deucalion threw.
0:35 Lapu-lapu
Catalonia is supposed to be named after the legendary Otger Cataló though there are alternative theories
What about Israel? Named directly after the biblical character Israel AKA Jacob.
The 's' in Laos is silent
You missed a big one (big name - tiny country). Israel is named after the tribe of Israel, named after Jacob. In the bible, Jacob (whose name means "follower") has a one on one fist fight with an angel (this story is known as 'Jacob's ladder'). Jacob wins the fight and is given the name Israel - the one the fought god.
Eire likely comes from an older Celtic word meaning ‘fertile’ or ‘fat’ likely referring to the lands fertile fields. That proto Celtic word being Fiweryon (pretty much all later Celtic languages dropped the F)
Could come from the greek word for Ireland circa 250BC ''Iverni'' but it's disputed that doesn't mean it's not correct however.
Lech -> Lengyel (The Hungarian word for Polish) BTW Magyarország (Hungary) is related to Magor, a legendary figure. He was the brother of Hunor (Huns)
0:57 That's a nice choice of game for that example
Croatia, in my (native) language Hrvatska, was named after Hrvat, one of the 7 legendary siblings that lead the croatian people from White Croatia(southern Poland) to where we are now (as the legend says)
How do you create your videos?
with alot of work
So... No Greece? Its name in Greek is "Hellas", IIRC, which comes from Helena of Troy.
JF Salles no, it doesn’t. It’s unclear whether the Hellenes and Hellen have a common root, but oftentimes the aspirated E in Héllenes is expressed as Séllenes, which might also be connected to Seléne, the ma,e of the moon and some minor goddess or mythological person
From Northern Ireland but at university in Scotland
Idea for episode, Romantic national personifications, Britannia, Columbia as examples but do all different kinds
Cecil Rhodes. =Rhodisia. After independence in April 1980 then now Zimbabwe. 20 years later, 1999 The president, Robert Mugabe told western grand grand children of white Zimbabweans, that we are going to share the land and natural resources of the country for the benefit of all citizens. Since then 20 years later Zimbabwe is under sanctions from the USA and Europe.
Wow someone throwing shade at Barney Stinson
5:16 Is that why the country is called Djibouti?
3:02 * "By and large"
Sri Lanka was named after a mythical legendary person called Lanka- the name Lanka comes from the epic tale of Ramayana and Sri is just Honourable title in Sanskrit like saying sir
I have a video idea. Take a look into the wannabee dictator Vidkun quisling
So there is a lot of bouti in Djibouti
Is it ruled by the legendary Sheik Yerbouti?
6:53 Swayambhu means someone that gives birth to itself
Czech. It's pronounced like "check".
Just by chance, did you mention Ireland in this video, must have missed it.