British country names explained
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Why is 🏴England named after the Angles and not the Saxons? Does 🏴"Welsh" really mean slave? And where was the original 🏴Scotland? These questions answered and many more on this etymological trip around the 🇬🇧UK.
In this video, I explain the origins of the names of England, Scotland and Wales, as well as the rest of the British Isles and 🇮🇪Ireland. And prepare for a shocking revelation about walnuts.
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==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:22 "England"
3:54 "Wales"
4:56 Ground News
6:07 "Wales" continued
9:25 "Scotland"
11:05 "Ireland"
11:37 "Britain"
11:09 "Albion"
14:04 The British Isles ("Shetland", "Isle of Man" etc.) - บันเทิง
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Los Angeles was founded by the Angles as well. "Los" means "Let's go" in case you didn't know.
You mentioned one of my two favorites, The Netherlands. The other favorite, while it's politically incorrect to call it this now, is The Ukraine. Ukraine, in its language family, connotes "the hinter land," while The Netherlands is "the lowlands." Each is, in its own way, belittling.
Patently untrue, Los Angeles just means "the angels" in Spanish.
@@Esteareal You are a truly patent girl!
Is the word "Alp" connected to the word "Alba"?
As a Belgian fan of yours, I was shouting: Dude, that's where the word Walloons comes from and then you confirmed it. And my day was made. Keep up the good work, love the channel.
Somehow I'm disproportionately amused by the notion of someone Belgian shouting "dude"...😁
Writing a song need some rhymes. Walloon, balloon,maroon, Quadroon, buffoon Macaroon.. Help me out guys, I have limited capacity
@@stevetournay6103 90% of my media consumption is in English. All our media is/was subtitled not dubbed, so my use of dude is not that surprising. 😉
as a swiss, i was sad he didn't mention that francophone swiss people are literally called welsch lol
@@stevetournay6103 It has been rumored that there is a healthy burgeoning Belgian North Sea Surf Scene. Cowabunga!
The "wall" in Cornwall being related to Wales is one of those things that's completely obscure before, but then ridiculously obvious in hindsight.
And one that wasn't mentioned - Cumbria.
There's also a Cornouaille in Brittany, France, which looks suspiciously similar.
I'm so happy that I found this channel. I'm what you call a word-nerd. I'm Flemish from Belgium, and I'm a linguist and Orientalist specialised in Indian languages. But I love all languages, so this is gold for me. Thank you, Rob.
If you haven't already done so, you should study Anglo-Saxon, which became Old English. Being Vlaams, you will find it easy to understand than most native English speakers do. I always think of the Flemish and Frisians as the English who stayed home instead of migrating to Britain.
Thank you Mr Rob. Im from Azerbaijan, I enjoyed learning of interesting facts about England
Princess diana English armenian
So now, the question ⁉️, why Brexit ?!
They want to denounce & repudiate their European connections & origins ? Maybe they don't like their history ? 😮
They're European no ?🤔
Here in the German speaking part of Switzerland, we refer to the French speaking part as “Welschland” and to the French speaking people as “Welsch”. I never would have guessed that this has the same roots as the English referring to “Wales” and “the Welsh”. Amazing!
Welsch = Gaulois.
I mean.. If you're speaking German, you probably can anticipate the joke about the isles being a not very wide oblong and the Saxons, the original English speaking the old, but understandable by german natives to this day, middle-high German language in which "Eng" means narrow and "land" means country or land.
So in Germany, "England" literally translated means "Narrow Country" or "Narrow Land". 😅
@@HG_Budde "eng" also means narrow in english.
But the name "england" comes from "Engla land" = "the land of the Angles". The Angles come from the region of KIEL - FLENSBOURG.
Die Wallachei in Rumänien hat ihren Namen auch vom Wort welsch meine ich. Und Wallonien in belgien ??
@@hbecker123 ja genau
There's a great Billy Connolly skit where he references the Scotti coming to Scotland from Ireland and exclaiming "We've found somewhere colder and wetter than home, COME ON!!!"
Brilliant
😂
Doesn't get more Billy than that! hahaha
And it's true. Scoti was the latin word romans called an Irish tribe that settled in Scotland.
Some Scots later found an even colder and wetter place and moved to the southern part of NZ. Dunedin is the Gaelic name for Edinburgh.
The etymology of the Welsh word for England, as you said, is 'Lloegr', which derives from old Welsh for.. 'The Lost Lands' or a variation of, which harks back to the Britons being pushed to the western fringes by the Anglo-Saxons. While the word for English 'Saesneg', Englishman 'Saes', and English people 'Season', resembles the other Celtic languages in referencing the Saxons
Thank for this. I read it meant "lost lands" but couldn't find another decent source for it.
My only source is a lecturer telling me over a pint mind! There is a fair bit of Latin in Welsh, where it doesn't appear in English ("Pont", "Ffenestr", "Eglwys" etc), most likely loaned from the Romans I imagine. I wonder if the Anglo-Saxons picked up on that too@@RobWords
Angle here whose descendants lived in Skulthorpe. I appreciate your education the masses about the Angles.
Fun fact about the word "Welsh".
In Italy we have a province called "South Tyrol" (in Italian "Alto Adige" and in German "Südtirol") where German is an official language and it's spoken even more than Italian. At the border with Trentino (basically the last fully Italian speaking province before South Tyrol) there are two towns called Nofen: one was historically German-speaking, therefore it's called *Deutschnofen* ("Deutsch" means German) and the other was historically Italian-speaking and so it's called… *Welschnofen* ! So interesting!
Similarly, Verona used to be called "Welsch-Bern," presumably to distinguish it from the German-speaking Bern in Switzerland.
@ Buck...
Deutsch actually means
"of the people"
Deutschland means people's land
@@TimeTheory2099 yes, this is the original and etymological meaning. But now it means simply "German"
@@TimeTheory2099Thought it would derive from Teutsch with the root *teut? Can You tell sth about this pls
@@notsheramThanks for the info that's quite interesting! Although the French term for Wallis is actually "Valais" ("Vaud" being another French speaking canton).
I love reading the comments after the video because folks add so many little details. Great companions and fantastically informative.
Same here.
@@mquietsch6736 Yep, me too 👍
I enjoy the way you naturally lead in to your sponsors! I watch them just because you give it such nice context.
I am deeply fascinated by etymology.
That makes this video a non stop neurological climactic event for me.
Looking forward to watching more, keep up the great work!
As someone living in northern Germany I knew about the origin of the word "England" (btw there is still a small region called "Angeln" here in Schleswig-Holstein) but the way you explained this plus all the additional info was spot on and entertaining as always. 🤩 Thank you!
Would you be kind enough to take your brothers back?
@@infinitydreamzzI'm afraid they're far too many by now ... I'm sorry. 😔
@@friede6256 yeah that's true
Schleswig-Holstein meerumschlungen
Angeln connected to fishing?
I spent my childhood in Brittany.
My English friend came one summer with his Welsh grandfather…
This 60+ man didn’t speak French, but could recognize and have very basic conversations with the Bretons locals.
That's fascinating...😀
I fell awake wondering about this very subject just t'other morning. Serendipitously I stumbled on your cracking video. Look forward to watching more of 'em. Thank you 😁
A friend from Bretagne FR told me that Cornish people fled from the Anglosaxons over the channel. After all time there are now 2 different dialects of sam celtic language.
I'm from Wales. My Grandmother told us of the Sionni Onion Men, Breton onion sellers who came over on bikes to sell their wares. They could make themselves understood by speaking Breton to Welsh speakers. This would have been in the early to mid 20th century.
@@JohnHardingIngvarThis included my grandmother.
Oh! man
this video contains A LOT of bizarre, informative, exquisite, lovely, reasonable, unreasonable ....... information
thanks, man
this is such a help
I knew a lot of this, but putting it all together puts things into perspective really well
What a refreshing guy, I never knew that this was the very channel I had been looking for since ever the world began.
This guy knows how to present dry info in a passionate way. An excellent teacher. An example to all TH-camrs.
Isn’t he great? Imagine how many more people would like history and linguistics if they had - teacher like him, who makes it interesting without being a fuddy-duddy.
Everyone knows the Earth is only 6000 years old and the Internet started in 2010…LOL.
You really should check your numbers. My figures show it as 6,376 years old. It would have taken time for the fossils to take on a decent patina. It could even be as old as 6, 379 years old. @@doogleticker5183
Love it!
We have a term in Germany, Kauderwelsch. It refers to the italian dialects spoken by impoverished wandering tradesmen, mostly kettle / cauldron menders, "Kauderer". I guess it's related to cauldron. So Cauldron Welsh means "unintelligible speech" and is nowadays used to describe either gibberish or technobabble.
Same word in Norwegain: Kaudervelsk - meaning meaningless babble.
In fact, when the Romans expanded into the barbarian lands, they found populations characterized by unthinkable cultures, languages equipped with complex vocabularies that could perfectly describe the hundred different ways of building a hut.
But why be surprised, if the same German spoken by the high-ranking German officers who discuss the umpteenth aggression against Russia (probably the German national sport), does not seem to be properly courtly, but, rather, a real Kauderwelsch, as when the employee of the Air Operations Center, Florstedt, declares that "im Grunde genommen ist es doable (!!!), und wie bringt man den Ukrainern die TTPs bei, um das Ding zu schießen? (!!!)".
And in Dutch: Koeterwaals. Same meaning
Many (if not all fo them) of Slavic languages call Germans unintelligible speakers or the mute ones. (Nemec-Nemci)
Kauderwelsch
Word Salad
Perfect
I have only just discovered your channel and am delighted. Your videos are informative and you present them quite well. Thank you for the hard work and education!
So glad the algorithm suggested this channel. I love etymology and history, and they seem to be one and the same!
Fabulously interesting video, I'm a Frenchman with a Welsh grandpa and a Kentish grandma, what a mix!
"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls. "On the basis of a Book, every letter which has become law, he created a spiritual nationality which blend together peoples of every tongue and race. He has left the indelible characteristic of this Muslim nationality the hatred of false gods and the passion for the One and Immaterial God. This avenging patriotism against the profanation of Heaven formed the virtue of the followers of Muhammad; the conquest of one-third the earth to the dogma was his miracle; or rather it was not the miracle of man but that of reason. "The idea of the unity of God, proclaimed amidst the exhaustion of the fabulous theogonies, was in itself such a miracle that upon it's utterance from his lips it destroyed all the ancient temples of idols and set on fire one-third of the world. His life, his meditations, his heroic revelings against the superstitions of his country, and his boldness in defying the furies of idolatry, his firmness in enduring them for fifteen years in Mecca, his acceptance of the role of public scorn and almost of being a victim of his fellow countrymen... This dogma was twofold the unity of God and the immateriality of God: the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with words. "Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Conqueror of Ideas, Restorer of Rational beliefs.... The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?" Tribute by a French NON-Muslim poet, statesman, historian: Alphonse de LaMartaine in 'Historie de la Turquie,' Paris, 1854.
@@nononsensegamesI was born and raised in Paris France but Mom is half Kentish half Welsh. Still have relatives in the UK, an old aunt and many cousins 😀
@@nononsensegamesWhat I'm saying is with this video I understood why Saxon country (Kent was part of it) or the history of Wales being invaded, and France with Brittany being part of the influence, I have quite a mixed heritage. I'm not making a point, what a weird idea. Are you American?
@@nononsensegamesYou seem very confused. I said a Welsh GRANDPA and a Kentish GRANDMA many times, and as the video shows, the Saxon settlements included Kent. Kent is now part of England of course (my family is from Tenterden). Nothing to do with being part of Wales or France. Perhaps you should watch it again and stop arguing where there's no argument to be made
"I'm a Frenchman with a Welsh grandpa and a Kentish grandma." Wow, how do you feel about Welsh and Kentish Ales? imho they are the two best regions.
I can give you an example of a group of people living in the Italian dolomites. They call themselves "Latini" because after the Roman occupation their language became "latinised". When Germanic tribes moved from the north these Germanic speakers called the Latini "Welsch" meaning foreigners. Also called another group of people "Windisch", meaning slaves. German speakers started to use "Ladinisch" in 18th century.
That’s very interesting. Windish is part of Carniola in todays Slovenia (east of Italy, south of Austria). The Germans referred to Windes as slaves.
Yes, but much later. Wenden was a Germanic tribe in the East as we know called the Vandal people as Wenden from the West, but when Salvic settlers moved westwards the West Germanic speakers simply used that term still, so that in the High Middle Ages the term got reused to mean Slav. And yes, also Windischgrätz in Czechia.
In nordern Germany (Niedersachsen) some people can speak "Plattdeutsch" what is near "old englisch. A few words of plattdeutsch sound like english, until today.
Yup, Low German (called so because of altitude, not related to class) is the oldest German there is, with no vowel and consonant shifts (unlike High German spoken in Austria, southern Germany and Switzerland) and is thus closest to English. At some point, all the dialects between German, Dutch and English were on a Dialektkontinuum, but over the centuries, that broke apart.
@@Schiffsfahrer Dialektkontinuum sounds like something you'd hear in Star Trek. LOL, that's great. I love languages.
@@Schiffsfahrer I think the dialect continuum over the netherlands and germany is still there, because to me as a Dutch person, I can understand low german so much more than high german. To me low german looks like dutch with some german sprinkled in. Then again dutch also did not undergo the sound shifts that high german did.
Such a well-researched, informative and fun video!!
Love this topic
I am a native Cantonese speaker. We called England as 英格蘭 which pronounced as Ingeland.
That's what us English call England during football and rugby matches....😊
May I just tell you how much I “nerd out” on your videos? Thanks to a primary grade teacher and two secondary level English teachers I LOVE etymology! (Reading the dictionary is a favorite pastime!) You bring the English language to life.
Thank you Rob, this was a clear, and entertaining piece of content. I am English and learned more from this than 4 years of history lessons at school (a long time ago).
Always interesting, always amusing. Thanks Rob for another excellent program.
I am so glad I stumbled across your channel - I've been interested in etymology since I was young and used dictionaries to help me solve crosswords, noting the words' origins. I sometimes amazed myself with my ability to formulate correct answers purely from my growing knowledge of the roots of our words. Keep up the great work, I always look forward to your next notification... word-nerds of the world, unite! 😂 Cheers from Oz. 👍🇦🇺
County Donegal in Ireland is also probably linked to Wales and Gaul. In Irish it's Dún na nGall which translates as fort of the foreigners.
So basically you are saying that Irish are not Gál-Gaelic-Gaul?
Donegal was invaded by the Vikings and they're believed to have established a settlement at the end of Donegal Bay, possibly on the site of where Donegal Castle is today - that could explain the origin of the name - the Vikings being the 'foreigner' in this instance.
@@Pfth The Nordic people didn't call themselves Gál-Gaelic-Gaul so wouldn't name a village Don-Dom Gál either a home of Gál-Gaelic-Gaul.
If this what Irish belief is for the word Gál-Gaelic-Gaul then Irish are not Gál-Gaelic-Gaul folk.
@@hondacbrificationMaybe Dún na nGall was the name the Irish used to describe the place and it stuck. I agree that the Vikings wouldn't have called it that. How do you define Gál-Gaelic-Gaul folk? Only asking as I genuinely don't know. I know that Irish ancestry, like all ancestries, is very complex - contains Gaelic as well as Scandinavian, French, English, Welsh and Scottish elements - but no one alive today can reasonably claim to be "pure Gael" - and even the Gaels would have had some pre-Gaelic DNA in their genetic makeup. At least, this is as far as I can make out.
@@Pfth Gál-Gál-Gaelic-Gaul moved between Portugal,BenGal and Mongolia and have connected Iberian Peninsula with Caucasian Iberian Kingdom and Siberia throughout the times like other regions which is why R1B and R1A haplogroups are so worldwide spread.
This why Irish-Scottish genetics appears amongst native Afghan Pashtun population just as Iran,Middle East ...and entire Scythian lands for Gál-Gaelic-Gaul where a established tribal alliance in bronze age that had they global influence.
This why some native Irish that can trace they origins in Ireland for many centuries have been scoring a more central Uralic genetic connection since arguably they had a connection or derived from a Udmurts whose known feature is that they all Ginger and they claim that every person that have Ginger hair in modern Russia are of Udmurt origins.
From my Hungarian-Macar-Scythian point of view by looking at my own archeo-genetic data and general culture that is our and have no connection to Mediterranean people I have a different view on the topic.
Gál is a common Hungarian surname that is associated to be the same as Gaul-Gael which have connection many other Hungarian-Macar-Scythian surname like Gálvölgyi whicb means Valley of Gál and its a surname that indicates that Árpádian basin known as Carpathian basin was known as Valley of Gál-Gaelic-Gaul to Hungarians.
This why when we look up Scythians archeo-genetic data the Western Scythians are a Ugro-Finnic alliance meaning Hungarian-Finnish from which Hungarian part is Gál-Gaelic-Gaul while Eastern Scythians appears to be more Turkic.
This explains many things like why Hungarian pig breed Mangalica is called as such since Hungarian called themselves ManGál or Gálic people and it's from ManGál that the word Mongol have derived from.
As to what what Gál means from a Hungarian part it's the root word for Galamb meaning Dove 🕊 which appears in more English form in Moldavia but more importantly it's a animal associated with so called Turan-Turul bird from which Hungarian-Macar-Scythian traced they origins which can be found in Etruscan Turan related sources just as Mongolian to this very day.
The Turan-Turul bird in some traditions is more a hybrid animal depicted as a Griffin or so called Phonics even some sources.
Hence arguably we Gál-Gaelic-Gaul folk where a group of people that had a Mother Goddess as part of they cultural-religious centre hence the role of male and female where different compared to other more male centred societies where females didn't play a significant role in society.
This why arguably in modern English language Gal is also a word used for female since today we have a more Phalic Mediterranean culture that dominates the continent which is not native in this land and whose narrative are inserted compared to more native Mother Nature centric culture that was native in the land.
I loved this video! Thank you for posting it! 😊
This is so good! Very fascinating and informative.
Incase some of you didn't know ,sax from saxon changed to sex in place names ,Essex is East Saxony ,West Saxony is Wessex,,guess what Middle Saxony is and South Saxony ,3 points for each 😊 Norfolk is North Folk ,Suffolk is ...
Sussex
But what is middle Saxony
I’m slow lol
@@YeshuaKingMessiah Middlesex
@@sharonprice42 ah! But ofc!
This channel is one of my all time favourites on YT!!! Thank you for all this culture and information. ❤
Amazing research and explanation!
The videos on this channel are fantastic , really entertaining and very educational .Thank you so much !
having lived in the UK my whole life, I love that there's so much I didn't know about the history of my country. Very informative and well delivered. Excellent job my friend.
Yeap, you are a German
@@infinitydreamzzor Danish..
You are my favorite new channel. I love etymology and your channel is fantastic! You are a hidden gem.
Props for the massive work behind that video
Love this! New subscriber… Thanks for all of the info. Fascinating!
Rob, you never fail to both inform and amuse me. I love your videos. I just wish I could remember even a small amount of the facts you share!
This is one of those videos that one expects to listen to but then leave soon after. I stayed till the end because it is fun and very interesting! Happy Trails from Florida
Well, it's nice to have Robert reinforce and confirmy ideas
Great video. Entertaining and enlightening. Love all your work.
Love this video! Although being Swedish, in Sweden, I'm very interested in both history and languageand how everything is connected. Especially in northern Europe. Cheers!
Awesome Rob! Watched this till the end without stopping and learnt something new... From old Ceylon now living in NZ.
I liked the way you linked the sponsor with the topic of the video.
One of the most informative videos I’ve seen on this subject. 😎
Oh my god you are brilliant craic to watch. Had no intention for this video but was hooked by the end 😂
I love that etymology moment around the 'wal' morpheme, it's like a whole load of random doors opening far away down the hall. But also I couldn't help notice you neglected the island of Lundy, it was on your animated map all sad and unhighlighted
Great metaphor
Let's hear it for the puffins!
Love this channel. Keep up the good work.
Thanks a lot, this answered many questions I had had since childhood, plus some bonus ones.
Thanks! Coincidentally, I came across your video, and I find it very very interesting. Not being British (i live in Chile), but having ancestry, I have always been curious to know more about Great Britain (history, native peoples and why the names of the states that make it up). Thank you again! Loved your channel
I moved to the UK not so long ago and your such videos are very interesting, curious and exiting. whey help to know history and origin of words, names, and places of the country. I like to know that's in depth and your video help to do that. thank you!! very fundamental and curious information
You moved to little britain,I actually feel sorry for you
Very interesting. So glad I stumbeld across this chanel - subscribed about 3 minutes in!
Fascinating! Thank you. 😊❤
Best video to date! As a norwegian speaker, it's so fun to see some of the old pronunciations, as the kind of sounds like the pronunciations we use today. "Yrrland" for Ireland, or as we write it: "Irland" (pronounced Irrland, with "rolling" R).
I took Medieval Lit during my final semester as an English major. Learning about the evolution of the language and hearing how English originally sounded, pre Chaucer and Shakespeare, was one of those moments from lectures that really stuck with me. We had to memorize Cædmon's hymn and I still know it 8 years later. It's my "party trick," as well as being a fun way to engage my students. Everyone always says it sounds like Norwegian or Elvish 😁
same word in german, except we don't roll the "r" in Irland, even in the south where we do roll our r at the beginning of words.
In pre-christian culture Iriy meads Paradise. Ireland is a Paradise land.
Or with «skarre r»=french r, wich is used in the west ad the south of Norway along the coast
Hmmm. If you read "England" in Norwegian it actually means "Land of "Land of field/meadow" .... which could be brought to Engkand by Vikings ...
This is absolutely one of the most interesting and informative videos I've ever seen on TH-cam. Great work.
Thank you for this very interesting video. I appreciate your work.
Always wonderfully educational. Thank you.
Love this video. I am Dutch, Netherlands and also Hollands. Why am I so many names? The humour and knowledge you gave me was really great. Will watch your other vids too!
When I was little, we learned that Holland was Holland; the Netherlands (low countries) were Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg together...
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The Dutch themself can add to the confusion though by things like "Hup Holland" at football matches and so on!
Netherland being Holland was becuz the Dutch wanted their country called that instead of Holland
That’s what I learned in USA (born in 65)
What a history lesson. I'm loving it. Cheers from a far outsider out in Canada
Thank you Rob. I have enjoyed a bunch of your videos. Your presence draws my attention in like a moth to a light. You bring back so many found memories of listening to Alistair Cooke.
I imagine he must have been an influence on you.
😊
Very interesting video for an admirer of the British Empire, like me. I visited England and Scotland and was very surprised by these cultures. Especially peaceful rivalry, so to speak. I ended up buying two bagpipes in Edinburgh. Which I never learned to play (LOL). I have English friends, even living here in Brazil. Here we call Inglaterra to England. Wales (País de Gales), Scotland (Escócia), Northern Ireland (Irlanda do Norte) and Ireland (Irlanda). Hugs from Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Rubens Leffer De Liz Santos.
If you knew anything about the British Empire you could not admire it. If you knew of the systematic brutality employed by British colonial forces to suppress unfortunate peoples of the colonies you could not admire it. If you knew of the detention camps, where torture, rape, and extrajudicial killings were rampant you could not admire it. If you knew of the British legal system's complicity in sanctioning state-sponsored violence in the colonies you could not admire it. If you knew of the dehumanising effects of torture and trauma experienced by peoples of the colonies and the moral dissonance of British officials tasked with implementing these oppressive policies you could not admire it. If you knew how British mercantilist policies prioritised the export of raw materials from colonies to fuel industrialisation in Britain, leading to deindustrialisation, impoverishment, and dependency in the colonies' economies you could not admire it. If you knew that British benevolence and civilizing mission in the colonies is pure myth you could not admire it. If you knew that popular narratives that portray British colonialism as a force for modernisation and progress are just whitewash for the atrocities, human rights abuses, and exploitation perpetrated by the British Empire, you could not admire it. Noone can admire what is shameful.
@@kevinnolan1339 I respect your point of view. God bless you.
@@kevinnolan1339
It seems you've never known, or spoken to, anyone who lived under British rule in any of the former colonies.
That’s the best geography lesson I’ve ever gotten on England ❤
Thank you for such fascinating videos.
Phenomenal stuff! That is the most mental stimulation I've had since...well....your last video.
Greetings from Hong Kong! What a fascinating lesson on the word 'England' Thank you, Rob!
:)
Kia ora from New Zealand. At 1:23 Rob says that England (plus derivatives) is the only word where the "ENG" combination of letters makes that sound. I found this statement very ENGaging. What do other folk think, please?
@@liamloxley1222 Ah. Thank you. I have a strong Kiwi accent and the difference between those two sounds, for me, is very minor. I appreciate your help. Cheers!!!
rob really thoguht he did something there. this will forever be ENGraved in his memories of embarrassing moments.
I say en-(grave) not ing-(rave)
For engrave and engage
But I say ing for England
I’m American
I don’t think I’m ready for all the nerdy wordy that’s going on here, but I’m loving it
Your explanations give important clues to the determine the real location of the fantastic places mentioned in the Spanish classic Amadis of Gaul.
Very informative , thank you. However you did not mention the there still is an Anglia in Germany on the border with Denmark- - Anglia (German and Low German: Angeln; Danish and South Jutlandic: Angel; Old English: Engel) is a small peninsula in northern Germany, on the Baltic coast of Jutland.
When I hear Anglia I think about a car.
@@okaro6595 And the Whopping Willow.
I was born in Germany, with a German mother and an American father. My DNA test was a big surprise for me. Scottish/Irish/French/German (my mother’s family is coming from Saxon 😂), my father from Scotland/Ireland and France.. thank you for the explanation!
Because these DNA tests are not as good as advertised.
@@hendric-juliuslange5446 An assessment on your part since you don't know where I got tested. What would be your suggestion?
@@IncaMcCarter all DNA tests are flawed. I wouldn't suggest any of those. We know today's spreading of all the DNA markers, but not the spread from centuries ago. Everything is just an assumption. Having a certain marker in Scandinavia today doesn't mean it existed in the Vikings. Sure there are some that are a given, but enough aren't, making this way to speculative.
Very interesting video. Was a delight!
oooh nicely put together info...ty!
Super stuff, Britain's history never ceases to fascinate. i also thought the word eng in German translates to narrow. i see now from the map that angles before migration inhabited a narrow strip(eng land) between mainland Germany and its Jutland peninsular. I just needed to go back to the origin of the Angles. Thanks !!!
3:30 - It makes sense that the Saxons in England wouldn't call themselves "Saxon-land" that if they saw themselves as just a colonial venture of the Saxon-land in Germany. But to other people in the British Isles, calling the area under Germanic domination "Saxon-land" would make a lot of sense, because it's only comparing it to the non-Germanic regions of the British Isles.
Love the awkwardness at the end! Great video
this is super interesting! thanks for this information!
Angel also means fishing rod, and yes that is one of the most serious theories as to the origin of the Angles name. That in turn comes from a word for hook, with a similar origin to ankle, which would in fact mean that it has the same origin as the Norse hook island name for Anglesey.
Angler fisherman
nailed it, the word angler, meaning fisherman is ancient
Some call it Angerland .
Thank you. Great video. Really interesting.
So much information I’m already lost why Ireland was called Scotland 🙃
In French we sometimes still ironically call Britain "la perfide Albion" (the treacherous Albion), nice to know where that comes from. :þ
It explains the Albion bit, but not "la perfide". It comes from one of the many 18th Century wars - War of Spanish Succession, War of Austrian Succession, Seven Years War??? - one of them anyway, but I can't remember which one offhand and I'm too lazy to look it up. England was being perfidious once more - not for the first time and, sans aucune doute, not for the last time either!!
Perfidious Albion
Love this channel!!
Loved this , well done
Had America lost the revolutionary war … We’d all be speaking English .😂😂🙏🏿🙏🏿
English hasn't been spoken in the USA for at least 200 years
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Thank God we're all speaking American over here. . .
Love how Americans (not the Native ones obviously!) only exist because of English people, but have such a big ego that they think they speak "American" 😂
@@thelyrebird1310 You do speak English dopey.
Because it is across the north sea from the Netherlands and 'Eng' in Dutch means Creepy. So there you have it. You live in Creepyland.
So what brings you over here, little girl?😋😛😋
It also meant "meadow" in the old 'Dutch' tongue, so either creepy or full of meadows, I leave the choice in the readers hands ;)
Heel eng land, dat.
But then "engel" means "angel," so "Engeland" could be "Land of the Angels" and "Engels" (the Dutch word for English) could be "Angelish" or "Language of the Angels" 😜 Obviously, I'm joking, but I feel it important to explicitly state that so nobody comes after me, mistaking my joke for a serious statement
creepy is a modern word
Very informative. Good job.
Hey Rob, just came across your channel and so enjoyed this video on England. Warm hello and greetings from Johannesburg ZA.
Thank you, I find your videos very informativ, and entertaining.
My comment is just about the English name for Wales, and the Welsh which reminds me of the Alemannic (German dialect) words "welsch", and "Welschkorn". An earlier comment about South Tyrol mentioned "welsch" also. Tyrolians are neighbors to the Alemannic tribes, maybe even belong to the Alemannic dialect group too.
Alemannic is a dialect of south west Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace (France). In Alemannic "welsch", means "false" (German "falsch", not the right one, or right ones).
About 100 years ago, the majority of people in the French region of Alsace spoke Alemannic, also known as "Alsatien".
The language border between French and German used to be in the mountains of the "Vogesen" (German) or "Vosges" (French). In the Alsatian dialect those French speaking people in the west, were the "Welschen" ("falschen" in standard German, or "false" in English, or maybe "welsh" in old English). "Welsh" is also found in the Alemannic word for corn, or maiz, "Welschkorn", meaning the "false corn", i.e. not oat, wheat, etc.
By the way: the Finns, Estonians, and Livonians, call Germany, in their language "Saxony".
1:16 Some accents pronounce Penguin like Ping-gwin, don't know how far that counts
and Penguin is Welsh, Pen Gwyn. White Head.
Penguin does indeed derive from the Welsh _Pen gwyn_ (White head),
It comes from the voyage of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe 1577 - 1580 . On board his ship there were Welsh speakers in the crew; the bird in question that had never been seen before actually wasn't the Penguin but another flightless bird - the ( sadly now extinct) *Great Auk*
The great Auk - a flightless bird,had a predominantly black plumage, except for its belly - and a splash of *white on its head* - the Welsh speakers called it the Pengwyn (Penguin) Literally,White head.
When later, another flightless bird ( The Penguin )was observed that was of a similar stature to the great Auk, it was given the generic term 'Penguin' ( even though ironically ,not one type of penguin has a 'white head' !) 😊🏴
On the other hand, Cornish was still widely spoken in the of West of Cornwall in the 1500s, therefore, the crew would have likely been comprised of a number of Cornish speakers. Indeed, Drake was born just over the boarder in Tavistock and from his base in Plymouth he was probably familiar with the seafaring abilities of the Cornish. In other words the sailors on his ship were more likely to have been Cornish than Welsh given the word Pen gwyn and Penn gwynn for Penguin are identical in both languages.
and that is "Ping-goo-een" in German: Pinguin.
Why is nobody saying “engorge”?
Kinda knew that the "great" in Great Britain referred to the size of the land mass. The rest just blew my mind. Super content. Super fun to know.
Oh! Thank you for explanation. Video is interesting =)
Rob, you're awesome!
Thank you very much, it’s such interesting to me. Even I’m German but I have so many friends from England. 😊
Have a happy first day of spring. 🌷
Thank you for such and informative and rich video! I have been into British culture (mostly the football) for a long time and this is the first time I learn this.
I will subscribe!
Love from Iraqi
So much information in 15 minutes! Really interesting.
Love these videos. The best of what TH-cam can be.