Country Names Explained #24

From ancient gods, to holy islands and islands of rabbits. These are some of the lands we'll explore today, in another episode of Country names and their origins.

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1. Spain - "Island of Hyraxes", from Norman French Spagne, from the Latin Hispania, from the Punic ʾÎ-šəpānîm (אי שפנים), probably from mistaking rabbits for the African hyrax.

2. Sri Lanka - "Holy Island", from Sanskrit Sri (श्री, "holy", "resplendent") and Lanka (लंका, "island").

3. Suriname - After the Surinen people, the earliest known native American inhabitants of the region.

4. Sweden - From the Old English Sweoðeod, the Old Norse Sviþjoð. The etymology of the first element, Svi, links to the PIE *suos ("one's own", "of one's own kin"). The last element, þjoð, means "people", cognate with deut in Deutsch and teut in Teutons.

5. Switzerland - From the toponym Schwyz first attested AD 972 as Suittes, derived from an Alemannic proper name Suito.

6. Syria - Several sources indicate that the name Syria is derived from the 8th century BC Luwian term "Sura/i", and the derivative ancient Greek name: Σύριοι, Sýrioi, or Σύροι, Sýroi, both of which originally derived from Aššūrāyu (Assyria) in northern Mesopotamia. However, from the Seleucid Empire (323–150 BC), this term was also applied to The Levant, and from this point the Greeks applied the term without distinction between the Assyrians of Mesopotamia and Arameans of the Levant. Mainstream modern academic opinion strongly favors the argument that the Greek word is related to the cognate Ἀσσυρία, Assyria, ultimately derived from the Akkadian Aššur. The Greek name appears to correspond to Phoenician ʾšr "Assur", ʾšrym "Assyrians", recorded in the 8th century BC Çineköy inscription.

7. Tajikistan - "Home of the Tajiks", a Persian-speaking ethnic group, with the suffix -stan. Sogdian Tājīk (j pronounced /ʒ/) was the local pronunciation of New Persian Tāzī, from Sassanian Persian Tāzīg, derived from the Tayy tribe and meaning "Arab". The Tajiks were New Persian–speaking Muslims, although not necessarily Arabs. (An alternate etymology[citation needed] is via Tibetan Tag Dzig, meaning "Persian" and "tiger" or "leopard".)

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

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