Country Names Explained #14

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1. Kuwait- From the Arabic diminutive form of كوت‎ (Kut or Kout), meaning "fortress built near water".

2. Kyrgyzstan - "Land of the forty tribes", from three words: kyrg (kırk) meaning "forty", yz (uz) meaning "tribes" in East-Turkic, and -stan meaning "land" in Persian.

3. Laos - Coined under French rule, derived from Lao lao (ລາວ), meaning "a Laotian" or "Laotian", possibly originally from an ancient Indian word lava (लव). (Lava is the name of one of the twin sons of the god Rama). The name might also be from Ai-Lao, the old Chinese name for the Tai ethnic groups to which the Lao people belong. Formerly known as Lan Xang (ລ້ານຊ້າງ) or "land of a million elephants".

4. Latvia - Emerged in the 19th century by combining ethnonym with finale -ija. The meaning and origin of name of Latvian people is unclear, however the root lat-/let- is associated with several Baltic hydronyms and might share common origin with the Liet- part of neighbouring Lithuania (Lietuva, see below) and name of Latgalians – one of the Baltic tribes that are considered ancestors of modern Latvian people.

5. Lebanon - The name Lebanon (لُبْنَان‎ Lubnān in standard Arabic; Lebnan or Lebnèn in local dialect) is derived from the Semitic root "LBN", which is linked to several closely related meanings in various languages, such as "white" and "milk". This is regarded as a reference to the snow-capped Mount Lebanon. Occurrences of the name have been found in three of the twelve tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh (2900 BC), the texts of the library of Ebla (2400 BC), and the Bible (71 times in the Bible's Old Testament).

6. Lesotho - "Land of the Basotho" or "of the Sesotho-speakers". Basotho itself is formed from the plural prefix ba- and Sotho of uncertain etymology, although possibly related to the word motho ("human being").

7. Liberia - From the Latin liber "free", so named because the country was established as a homeland for freed (liberated) African-American slaves.

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

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