I mean yes the form *Estonia* is from Latin, but its etymology is from a Proto-Germanic word, meaning “east”, as the name was first used for Balts living in Prussia, just east of Germans. Later the same name with the same etymology drifted northward to Finnic Estonia, as they were east of Germanic Scandinavians.
Isn’t “Finlandia” straight up latin?
Kos***owo***
I’ll never stop loving the fact that in Polish Germany is just “German people”. and that we share the word for German people as well
Actually, what does “Wlochy” means?
I mean… for exemple: I know that “Niemcy” means Germany but I have heard that it comes from polish for “hard to understand” since the ancient German tribes didn’t spoke “ancient polish”.
So I was wandering if Wlochy had a similar origin.
Can someone explain Hungary for me please?
A lot of bullshit. Węgry is from Turkic Onogur, Włochy is from Celtic Volcae (through Germanic), Litwa is of local, Baltic origin and so on and so on.
This is all wrong. First of all – Pra-Slovan means Proto-Slavic, not Pre-Slavic … all wrong and confused.
There is a typo, Bialorus should read Pizdziszewo.
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I mean yes the form *Estonia* is from Latin, but its etymology is from a Proto-Germanic word, meaning “east”, as the name was first used for Balts living in Prussia, just east of Germans. Later the same name with the same etymology drifted northward to Finnic Estonia, as they were east of Germanic Scandinavians.
Isn’t “Finlandia” straight up latin?
Kos***owo***
I’ll never stop loving the fact that in Polish Germany is just “German people”. and that we share the word for German people as well
Actually, what does “Wlochy” means?
I mean… for exemple: I know that “Niemcy” means Germany but I have heard that it comes from polish for “hard to understand” since the ancient German tribes didn’t spoke “ancient polish”.
So I was wandering if Wlochy had a similar origin.
Can someone explain Hungary for me please?
A lot of bullshit. Węgry is from Turkic Onogur, Włochy is from Celtic Volcae (through Germanic), Litwa is of local, Baltic origin and so on and so on.
This is all wrong. First of all – Pra-Slovan means Proto-Slavic, not Pre-Slavic … all wrong and confused.
There is a typo, Bialorus should read Pizdziszewo.