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19 Responses to "Country name etymologies"
Something seems wrong with
PR (not verified) Says:
October 23, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Something seems wrong with these names
Where are you from?
Memias (not verified) Says:
October 24, 2009 at 01:32 am
Where are you from?
Port of earth rules! xD
albinus (not verified) Says:
October 25, 2009 at 08:00 am
Port of earth rules! xD
..:::FTW:::..
What happened to Wales? And
Prodnose (not verified) Says:
October 25, 2009 at 03:35 pm
What happened to Wales? And what happened to Scotland? Where are Corsica, Brittany, never mind the Isle of Man?
because scotland, wales,
holly (not verified) Says:
October 25, 2009 at 05:36 pm
because scotland, wales, corsica, brittany etc arent COUNTRIES you div.
The etymology of Italy is
Xander Ares (not verified) Says:
October 31, 2009 at 01:45 am
The etymology of Italy is Land of Bulls not Land of Cattle. The name birth of King Italo ( etymology italòi = bulls), reigning of Catanzaro.
Actually, Scotland and Wales
Sam (not verified) Says:
October 31, 2009 at 07:33 am
Actually, Scotland and Wales ARE countries, just like England, you gigantic douche.
Sam, although Scotland and
Heather (not verified) Says:
November 04, 2009 at 01:06 am
Sam, although Scotland and Wales are countries as much as England is, the United Kingdom refers to them all collectively. The full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain includes all of the countries on the larger island.
archaelogists don' really
allen (not verified) Says:
November 10, 2009 at 10:40 am
archaelogists don' really seem to know where the Celts originated.
iceland is completely
kai (not verified) Says:
November 14, 2009 at 03:38 pm
iceland is completely wrong--it means island, not land of ice.a
wtf is a swede?
babababa (not verified) Says:
November 20, 2009 at 02:56 pm
wtf is a swede?
Judging by the shape,
Hantacica (not verified) Says:
November 21, 2009 at 07:25 am
Judging by the shape, "Alliance of the ten tribes" is supposed to be Hungary - but however romantic that sounds, it's so wrong I wouldn't even be able to explain it with one Wiki link only...
Moldova doesn't mean River
K (not verified) Says:
November 24, 2009 at 06:46 am
Moldova doesn't mean River Land, it is just assumed that it is named after a river with a similar name, although the etimology of the name is uncertain.
At least some of these are
David Hanneman (not verified) Says:
November 30, 2009 at 01:43 pm
At least some of these are rubbish.
"Fin" in Finland is likely to
auntiedragon (not verified) Says:
December 09, 2009 at 01:44 pm
"Fin" in Finland is likely to derived from "finnr" , finnr meant wanderer/finder in old germanic languages, so name for Finland would be maybe "Land of hunters". :)
Yup, land of open fields.
Chibiko (not verified) Says:
December 16, 2009 at 02:39 pm
Yup, land of open fields. It's exactly what Polska means ... :) pol - pole - field/fields. Mainly it's simply named land of fields...
no land of women?
bommtastik (not verified) Says:
April 04, 2010 at 06:17 pm
no land of women?
that is the old reign of
Ticketin (not verified) Says:
August 12, 2010 at 06:22 pm
that is the old reign of bitchia
Everything about this picture
Anonymous (not verified) Says:
July 08, 2010 at 05:05 pm
Everything about this picture is just wrong.....
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