Country Names and their Etymologies #12

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1. India - Land of the Indus River" in Latin, from Greek Ινδία, from Old Persian Hindu (𐎢𐎯𐎴𐎡𐏃), the Old Persian name of the Sind Province, ultimately derived from Sanskrit Sindhu (सिन्धु), the original name of the Indus River. “Sindhu" literally means "sea". It is now currently accepted that the Vedic-Sanskrit-speaking ancient Aryans had experience of migrating along the sea-shores of Africa, Arabia, and Iran and hence they were familiar with the concept of the sea. The name "Sindhu" was used first to denote this sea, the Arabian Sea, which much later came to be called the "Sindhu-Sagara". When they found a mighty river so wide that it looked like a sea, and settled there, they called it the Sindhu-river (Indus river).

2. Indonesia - "Indian Islands" in Greek (Ινδoνησία), apparently invented in the mid-19th century to mean "Indies Islands", from the islands' previous name "East Indies".

3. Iran - "Land of the Aryans" or "land of the free". The term "Arya" is from a Proto Indo-European root, generally meaning "noble" or "free", cognate with the Greek-derived word "aristocrat". Persia (former name): from Latin, via Greek Περσίς Persis, from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 Pārsa, originally the name of Persis (modern-day Farsi), a place name of a central district within the region.

4. Iraq - One theory is that it is derived from the city of Erech/Uruk (also known as "Warka") near the river Euphrates. Some archaeologists regard Uruk as the first major Sumerian city. However, it is more plausible that name is derived from the Middle Persian word Erak, meaning "lowlands". The natives of the southwestern part of today's Iran called their land "the Persian Iraq" for many centuries (for Arabs: Iraq ajemi: non-Arabic-speaking Iraq). Before the constitution of the state of Iraq, the term "Iraq arabi" referred to the region around Baghdad and Basra. As an Arabic word, عراق means "hem", "shore", "bank", or "edge", so that the name by folk etymology came to be interpreted as "the escarpment", viz. at the south and east of the Jazira Plateau, which forms the northern and western edge of the "al-Iraq arabi" area.

5. Ireland - After "Éire" from Proto-Celtic *Īweriū, "the fertile place" or "Place of Éire (Eriu)", a Celtic fertility goddess. May come from a reflex of Proto-Indo-European *arya, or from variations of the Irish word for "west" (modern Irish iar, iarthar).

6. Israel - "El(God) persists/rules".
"Israel" and related terms "the people of Israel" (`Am Isra'el עם יִשְׂרָאֵל‎) and "the Children of Israel" (Benei Isra'el בני יִשְׂרָאֵל‎) have referred to the Jewish People in its literature from antiquity. The name Isra'el (יִשְׂרָאֵל‎ – literally: "will Struggle with God"), originates from the Hebrew Bible as an appellation given to the biblical patriarch Jacob. According to the account in the Book of Genesis, Jacob wrestled with a stranger at a river ford and won – through perseverance. God then changed his name to Israel, signifying that he had deliberated with God and won, as he had wrestled and won with men.
7. Italy - Hypotheses for the etymology of the name "Italia" are numerous. One is that it was borrowed via Greek from the Oscan Víteliú 'land of calves' (cf. Lat vitulus "calf", Umb vitlo "calf"). The bull was a symbol of the southern Italic tribes and was often depicted goring the Roman wolf as a defiant symbol of free Italy during the Social War. Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus states this account together with the legend that Italy was named after Italus, mentioned also by Aristotle[36] and Thucydides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country-name_etymologies

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