Why Do Many Country Names End With ia?
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Do you come a country thats name ends with ia? If so what does the first part of the name mean?
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You know I was about to write first reply then I clicked on it it already had two replies
The IND in India of course comes from the river Indus
Georgia
Romania
"in Asia there's India and Malaysia"
Indonesia: am i a joke to you?
@@AbdulKarim-lu8zw yes it is not with ia
@Diamond Ice seriously? Kids learn this in elementary and you're asking if India is in Asia
Diamond Ice where is India the? Africa lol
Armenia, Cambodia, Georgia, Mongolia, Russia, Syria
@@AbdulKarim-lu8zw bbut..Brunei doesnt end with ia
I'm triggered that you didn't mention Romania.
Me too
Or Ireland...ia
@@Daniel-bb9qj Hibernia. ^-^
Same
or Serbia
U missed largest country in the whole world :- Russia
This name in its modernly used form (Rossia/Russia) was given by the Byzantians in Greek. The original naming is Rus.
@@BiglerSakura yeah in old Indian movies they used the word "rus" to address a Russia
Slava rossiya
But russia people call him self ruski, like south korean call him self hangguk same like japan call him self nippon/nihon
it is on thumbnail though
"...the Romance Languages, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese."
Hey, man, why're you doing my boy Romanian dirty like that?
True lol
Lol
Romanians have no influence
@@mysteriousDSF yes we do
@@pulanjuri1 In Transilvania?
That Asia ends with the -ia suffix is no coincidence. It was the name of a Roman province which is now mostly Turkey.
I thought Turkey was called Asia Minor. Asia Major being the rest of the Middle East. But the original Greek name for Turkey was Anatolia. Anatoli meaning East in Greek. So Land of the East (makes sense in terms of geographical position relative to Greece). The land that is present day Turkey was Persian and Hellenic before the Turks from central Asia arrived and took over it.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 the roman province of todays anatolia was called asia
Atlas Pro did a video on where Asia got its name. czcams.com/video/6_dBQFUnwQI/video.html
@@volvoxfraktalion5225 Africa was the roman province on Africa excluding the province of Egypt.
Asia and Syria are no coincidence I agree but Name Explain didn't want to delve into that too much.
Once upon a time far far away
there's a forgotten land,
It is called... AMNESIA
😂
@rara still new on CZcams :3 Wooosh
@rara still new on CZcams :3 r/woooosh
That land is from a valley that does not sleep called... Insomnia
rara still new on CZcams :3 r/wooosh
0:34
Indonesia : Am i a joke to you?
Kasian indonesia gak dianggap sama orang luar....😂😂
Cuma netizennya pada besar kepala ngerasa diri besar padahal orang luar gak peduli sama sekali....ironis...wkwkwk😅
@@brclnafc456 sehat?
@@brclnafc456 sehat?
@@brclnafc456 ngomong apaan si tolol ngak paham anjing
@@masubet5360 indonesia gak disebut sendiri
I realized that in my language, almost all of them ends in IA!
In portuguese: Albânia, Argélia, Armênia, Austrália, Áustria, Bielorrússia, Bolívia, Bósnia, Bulgária, Colômbia, Coréia, Croácia, Eritréia, Eslováquia, Eslovênia, Estônia, Etiópia, Finlândia, Gâmbia, Geórgia, Grécia, Hungria, Índia, Indonésia, Islândia, Itália, Jordânia, Letônia, Libéria, Líbia, Lituânia, Macedônia, Malásia, Mauritânia, Micronésia, Moldávia, Mongólia, Namíbia, Nigéria, Nova Zelândia, Polônia, Quênia, Romênia, Rússia, Sérvia, Síria, Somália, Suazilândia, Suécia, Tailândia, Tanzânia, Tchéquia, Tunísia, Turquia, Ucrânia and Zâmbia
Quênia is a coincidence tho. Kenya is a native African word. But it only makes it more fun
Same!
In German: Albania Agertia Armennia Aussieia Austrnazia Berinuaodia Buania Bolivia Bosnazia Bulgarnazia
Caodia Coreia Croanazia Eritea Ernazia Endia Etiopia Esovietia
Finazia Prussia Germia Greenazia Hunazia Inazia Itafaciztia Jormania Lenia Liveria Litsovietia Ucrnazia and Zambia
Thank me later
@@TheHannaBunch i thought Germans call Germany Deutschland.. (or It's a Different Country?)
Prince Zhedrick Silvestre it’s a different country.
In Persian it's Stan or Y Examples:Arabestan,Bulgarestan,Serbestan.....
Y examples:Slovaky,Sloveny,Bosny and Herzegoviny,Albany.....
In Europe We Have Austria and Bulgaria
In Asia We Have India And Malaysia
Romania,Indonesia: Am I Joke To You?
What about Macedonia?!
Or SerbIA?
What about Russia? Wich is Technically Eurasian :v
Croatia??
Ethiopia?
In Turkish we call almost every “ia” country replaced with “Stan” like “Hindistan” instead of india, or “Gürcistan” instead of Georgia
oh, hello from Georgia xD
In India, we call our country 'Bharat' or 'Hindustan'
Japan = Japostan
Philippines = Filipastan
New Zealand = New Zeastan
Thailand = Thaistan
-Istan means land of, word has persian origins
Don't the Turkish actually call India "Hindistan" and not Hindustan?
Once upon a time ...
Not so long ago, a nation was born after two people visit a nearby brothel. Its called :
Chlamydia
Romance languages: French, Italian, Spanish and Portugese...
Romanian: Am I a JoKe To YoU??
*the most popular* of them.
There is way more romance languages ...Italy has a version each 2 miles...
@@real_nosferatu
tell me another language that is Romance apart from all this
@@nxibba romansh in Switzerland
Accutane in France
Sardinian in italy
Catalan in spain and many more
@@cazwalt9013 *that is an official language. If its in that case, you might as well add "moldovan" too
India isn't of English origin it came from the Greeks.
India is the England equivalent of Greek Indoi
Indoi means Indians (for the people). In Greek it is India for the country.
well actually the arabians named us Indians
@@aaryamannath6043 no, first of all it was persians not arabians and they called us hindu from the river sindhu (indus). India comes from Greek origins.
@rishab thanks btw i m in 6th grade
if Germania became Germany, Hungaria became Hungary and Italia became Italy, so did Brittania become, Brittany?
Britanny is a province in france if im not mistaken
@@moulayismail1546 I know, that is what im saying, why isnt Great Britian called Britanny? Why is that part of France called Britanny?
@@rubabaazfar Because it was settled by Britons from Britain? The Roman name for Britain was in fact Britannia. In French, Brittany is called "Bretagne". "Grande Bretagne" is the french for "Great Britain".
Brittany is a province of France which formerly belonged to Great Britain, it's name effectively means little Britain as opposed to great Britain.
@@literatehorse6910Ooo, I didnt know that, Thanks
Latin = -ia
Germanic = -land
Andean = -suyu
Nahua (Aztecan) = -tlan
Bantu = kwa-, Wa-, Bu-, Ka-, & more
Chinese = -國
Persian = ستان-
Indian = -देश
Dravidian = -நாடு
Thai = ประเทศ-
Why Middle east (Stan ) ? 😂
Middle east is not a language. I think you mean Persian. Persia or Iran is located in the middle east but, most countries with stan suffix are located outside of it.
Tahmeed Tajwar Iran historically was much bigger than it is now. So those countries that have -stan ending have in history been apart of Iran either the whole country or part of it. Like Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and western part of Pakistan.
Czech = sko/cko
Latin also : um , us
In portuguese lots of country names end with "ia"
Islândia (iceland)
Grécia (greece)
Ucrânia (ukraine)
And it's even commun we use "Disneylândia" to reffer to Disneyland 😆
And Romania. Also a romance language.
I bet he has something with us the whole video didnt mention any Romanian. I bet he had been paid by hungarians
@@ferbintegabriel4714 calm down he also forgot russia which is ...freaking RUSSIA
Gypsys
Latvia, Lithuania, Bolivia, Colombia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Estonia, Romania, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Zambia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Cambodia, Czechia, Australia, Austria ("Ostria" to do not confuse with the southern island continent), Malaysia, Liberia, Indonesia, Tanzania, Namibia, Nigeria, The Gambia, Ethiopia, Federal States of Micronesia, Mauritania, Tunisia, Algeria, Georgia, Somalia, Armenia, Bosnia (with Herzegovina), Mongolia, New Caledonia, and St. Lucia.
These are 40 countries that finish with "-ia" suffix. However, there is more of the countries that remains with that suffix in other languages such as Italy, France, Germany, Finland and Sweden.
If I didn’t mention the name that has a -ia suffix, please reply below because with the time is changing politics and geography.
geographically czechia is czech republic and not czechia. but you call it whatever u wanna.
oh yeah also as far as im aware slovakia is slovak republic
Both Korea : am i joke to you?
@@SD-uu2mr as a korean i agree
And Spain it is España but it is pronounced Espania
In Russian many countries end with "ия" (iya)
In Serbian isn't ia but ja.
Русија.
Србија.
Индонезија.
Румунија.
...
Same in Lithuanian
It's not ija, but iya. In English, J makes a (dzh) sound, not a (y) sound. Keep that in mind in order to avoid confusion
@@brtnvmauthor9622 thank you
Udmurtia !! Thats where I'm from (an autonomous native republic in russia)
I cant wait for the time when all -ia countries become -y countries.
Colomby, Bolivy, Zamby, Australy, Austry, Indy, and the old, beautiful continent of Asy
It's funny because the way you'd pronounce those is exactly the same as they are in French with an "ie" ending instead
"Indonesy" "Malaysy" "Cambody" lmao
That's exactly how you say them in French except the spelling is different
Ethiopy, Indonesy, Romany, Bulgary, Californy, Russy, Libery, Syry, Tanzany, Croaty, Macedony, Prussy, Saudi Araby, a lot of other ones.
In swedish and german a lot of those places have the suffix -ien instead, like in swedish Bulgarien, Indonesien, Australien, Indien, Spanien, Asien, Kalifornien, and in german also Kolumbien and Argentinien
you went from Austria to Bulgaria by skipping the biggest country with ia in that drawing, Romania. i'm triggered
-Războinic al Justiției Sociale !-
not that triggered though.
-I’m sorry I’m bulgarian-
Also in Asia, he forget the 4th most populous country "INDONESIA"
no dignity.
HE SKIPPED THE CENTER OF THE BALKANS TO AVOID CONFLICTS! STOP COMPLAINING!
Relax
Serbia croatia
"Germania became Germany"
*coughs in hetalian*
Huge Weeb A man of culture I see.
Oh god-
@poland ` *oh hi*
Hetalia is so cringy and racist, with those fanbois who always say to you that you should learn to take a fucking joke. I watched a couple of episode of it , i could not stand the cringe of how they made Italy so obsessed with pasta.
@@qwertyasdfg2219 to each their own ig
dyslexia
Nouia
Schizophrenia
nokia
depression-ia
Kumaha Sia
Strangely enough, in Lithuanian ia is replaced by ija (still sounds the same) and we do still call a bunch of European countries by their old names
Britanija - Britain
Ispanija -Spain
Italija - Italy
Portugalija -Portugal
And for a few others
Slovėnija - Slovenia
Suomija - Finland
Latvija - Latvia
Estija - Estonia
And so on... Oh and Lithuania in English had the ia ending, but we call our country Lietuva, so that's a bit strange as well :)
It's not strange, it's just how specific rules of ortography and phonetics work in given language; still, it's just a local version of Greek '-ia'. In Polish ie. there are Brytania, Hiszpania or Portugalia, but on the other hand Grecja, Chorwacja or Słowacja; only because C befor '-ia' would be pronounced similar to English CH sound, and it seems it was more important to avoid than to be consistent in using the same '-ia' suffix.
I am glad that everyone talks about Romania. It's my country. I love you guys so much
the "ium" suffix is also used a lot in the periodic table of elements
Latin neuter second declension gentive plural “of”
Count Hiram no
@@MrCount84 2nd declension genitive plural is ‘-ōrum'. I think this is the neuter 2nd declension,but my Latin isn't very good.
Novvain oh i for singular and orum for genitive
In Romanian basically nearly all countries end in ia 😂
BOXSTYLE Even the USA, Mexico or Brazil?
@QuaDiamondSurai Belarus, Moldova, Netherlands, UK, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein aswell
@@user-wx3mq4nz3f UK=Britannia, Moldova=Moldavia, Netherlands=Frisia...jus saying
@@vsedai He said in Romanian which are: UK=Regatul Unit, Moldova=Moldova, Netherlands=Țările de jos
@JoelTheBeardSurvivor Netherlands is translated as Tarile de jos and Holland as Olanda. Go to wikipedia and search netherlands and find the romanian page. Holland is just a part of The Netherlands. Also in Spanish, The Netherlands translates as "Países Bajos"
I was once taught that "-ia" means "Grouping/collection of", unless the word itself is Greek in origin.
For -ia countries, it is a group of people (Serbia - Grouping of Serbs, Mongolia - Grouping of Mongols).
For -ia flowers, it is a collection of blooms discovered by a certain person (Begonia - Michel Bégon, Zinnia - Johann Zinn, Magnolia - Pierre Magnol)
For other things like "Militaria" "Regalia", it is literally a grouping of all things "Military" or "Regal", etc, even Roman Feasts like "Saturnalia" and "Dionysia", which had to do with all things "Saturn" and "Dionysus".
Disease names however, are generally latinized to standardize medical terms just as the scientific community standardized the Periodic Table in multiple languages worldwide. Malaria is the same in Arabic as it is in English, Japanese, or Swahili, just as it is for elements like Seaborgium or Plutonium.
Part of the mystery of "ia" in all its forms is that it already had a grammatical function in its earliest attested forms. The original meaning seems to have been to form collective nouns. The notion of generalizing the collective noun to refer to an inhabited place is then a historical metonymy (compare the extension of "Hades" from the name of the god to the name of the realm under his jurisdiction). I'd rather not speculate on how diseases and flowers relate to collections of things, but I do have my theories.
That's how I also understand it. The "-ia" suffix in Latin is used for collective nouns, some of which are still in use in modern English, like Paraphernalia and Qualia.
Australia - Grouping of Australs
Romania - Grouping of Romans??
@@jessesmith563 Australia derives from "Austral", borrowed from Latin, meaning "of the Southern Hemisphere". (The Northern Hemisphere is "Boreal"). The name Australia comes from the Roman-era legend of an unknown southern lands, or "Australis Incognita". Therefore it can be "Southern Land Grouping, (since Oceania was also grouped in too. Oceania is "Grouping of Ocean[-faring] Peoples"
As for Romania, it indeed means grouping of Romans. In the 1500s, Italians migrated to that region, and thusly, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia became collectively known as Romania, "Grouping of Romans"
So yes, my theory still stands. Liberia is "grouping of Liberated people", Catalonia is "Grouping of Catalan people", etc. etc.
@@lenaoxton3999 my comment was meant to be a joke...
i edited this comment so the reply doesn't make sense
Malaysia
*IM TRIGGERED*DDDDDDDDDDDRRRRRRRRTTTTT
Right, where is Indonesia
You forgot Georgia
Malaysia hmmm... Where Indonesia
Name's two countries in Europe ending with ia
Albania: Hold my beer
Czechia and Albania: *hold our beers*
Czechia, Austria, Albania, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
In Russian, basically a quarter of all the countries in the world ends with -ia, or -ия. You can see this in the following:
1. Австрия “Avstria” Austria
2. Албания “Albania”. Albania
3. Армения “Armenia”. Armenia
4. Белоруссия “Belorussia”. Belarus
5. Бельгия “Belgia”. Belgium
6. Болгария “Bulgaria”. Bulgaria
7. Боливия “Bolivia”. Bolivia
8. Бразилия “Brazilia”. Brazil
9. Великобритания “Velikobrittania”.
Great Britain
10. Венгрия “Vengria”. Hungary
11. Гамбия “Gambia”. Gambia
12. Германия “Germania”. Germany
13. Греция “Gretsia”. Greece
14. Грузия “Gruzia”. Georgia
15. Дания “Dania”. Denmark
16. Замбия “Zambia”. Zambia
17. Индия “India”. India
18. Индонезия “Indonesia” Indonesia
19. Иордания “Iordania”. Jordan
20. Ирландия “Irlandia”. Ireland
21. Исландия “Islandia”. Iceland
22. Испания “Ispania”. Spain
23. Италия “Italia”. Italy
24. Кения “Kenya”. Kenya
25. Киргизия “Kyrgyzia”. Kyrgyzstan
26. Колумбия “Columbia”. Columbia
27. Латвия “Latvia”. Latvia
28. Либерия “Liberia”. Liberia
29. Ливия “Lyvia”. Libya
30. Мавритания “Mavritania”.Mauritania
31. Македония“Makedonia”.Macedonia
32. Малайзия “Malazia”. Malaysia
33. Молдавия “Moldavia”. Moldova
34. Монголия “Mongolia”. Mongolia
35. Намибия “Namibia”. Namibia
36. Нигерия “Nigeria”. Nigeria
37. Норвегия “Norvegia”. Norway
38. Португалия“Portugalia” Portugal
39. Россия “Rossia”. Russia
40. Румыния “Rumania”. Romania
41. Сент-Люсия “Cent-Lucia”. Saint-Lucia
42. Сербия “Serbia”. Serbia
43. Сирия “Syria”. Syria
44. Словакия “Slovakia”. Slovakia
45. Словения “Slovenia”. Slovenia
46. Танзания “Tanzania”. Tanzania
47. Туркмения “Turkmenia”. Turkmenistan
48. Турция “Turtsia”. Turkey
49. Финляндия “Finlandia”. Finland
50. Франция “Frantsia”. France
51. Хорватия “Horvatia”. Croatia
52. Черногория “Chornogoria”. Montenegro
53. Чехия “Chehia” Czechia
54. Швейцария“Sveitsaria”.Switzerland
55. Швеция “Shvetsia”. Sweden
56. Эстония “Estonia”’. Estonia
57. Эфиопия “Efiopia”. Ethiopia
58. Япония “Yaponia”. Japan
In modern and ancient Greek -ia is extremely prominent when it comes to female nouns. I believe naming a place with "nations stem + ia" shows how people have seen the place as their mother (female) land.
In Arabic we actually have female and Male versions of words and we refer to countrys as female by using the female version of the word this in Arabic the Male version of this would be هذا (pronounced : hatha)and the female version is هذه (pronounced : hatheh) I think it might be the same in Greek
@@user-qt8cb4rs3z Well it depends, for nouns you MAY have two words female and male, but for adjectives etc. you always have 2 versions male and female, and also neutral.
I think Sotiris is right. The ending -ia is definately not country specific and it's used to describe anything really, so it doesn't have an actual meaning, but rather a grammatical purpose. Greek female nouns of all sorts and meanings end in -ia (and -eia which sounds exactly the same). They are formed that way because of the endings/accents of the verbs or adjectives they are derived from. So nation name +ia sounds like a perfectly possible explanation.
So thats why we called India mother
Not really feminine, as the guy explained. Feminine -ia is I'd say just as much of a coincidence than anything, really.
And in USA too: California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
But those aren't countries
Virginia, land of virgins 😆
And West Virginia
I’ve always loved the name of Pennsylvania: “Penn’s woodland area”
There’s
Romania
Nigeria
Austria
Australia
India
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Russia
Mongolia
Estonia
Somalia
Ethiopia
Indonesia
Latvia
Armenia (these are the ones I clan come up with my mind
Albania
Micronesia
Malaysia
Lithuania
Liberia
Algeria
Bulgaria
Mauritania
Saint Lucia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Syria
Tunisia
Zambia
Cambodia
29 countries
Second edit:still looked at a book and missed some countries
Gambia
Georgia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bolivia
Colombia
Macedonia
Jamacia
I learned so much about something i never thought of . thnx . this was great.
And there's Transylvania, Moldavia, Bessarabia etc...
Also, most continents have names that start with a- Africa, America, Asia, Antarctica, Australia. Europe is the only continent without an a in its name.
In Indonesian it call "Eropa"
Australia isn't a continent, Oceania is. So fail
@BorsMann pfffftt
I didn't even realise that a lot of country names in Romanian(my language) end with "-ia". I mean, it's a romance language. Examples:
România
Germania
Italia
Polonia
Cehia
Ungaria
Portugalia
Anglia
Grecia
Brazilia
Japonia
Suedia
Norvegia
etc...
😂😂
If Brazilia is the name in Romanian for Brazil, what do you guys call Brasilia, which is its capital?
@@carlosmagalhaes7109 Brasilia. Easy. And yes, why England named Brazil, Brazil? Why not Brasilia. By the way, i am Romanian
@@iamgone8479 Hmm In English Brazil is called Brazil because in Portuguese it's Brasil (with an "s" instead of a "z").
I heard someone once say that Romanian is closer to Latin than modern Italian, so that makes sense.
Myopia
Hypermetropia
Phobia
Lasagna(pronounced as lasania)
Mafia(thats how mafia works)
High Meme IQ, Good Thinking
Pretty sure mafia is an acronym, something like "morte alla Francia... something.. ."
Hello fellow Mafian
small typo in 3:08 "portugese" should be "portuguese". keep up with this channel great content, I love it. :)
João Victor Marques de Oliveira você falar portugués
You should do a video about the origin of the different names of germany in different languages. I always wondered if it was due to subgroups which where met first.
Some examples:
French - Allemagne (Allemanians)
Italian - Germania, but german (the language) is called tedesco (based of the Teutons)
Finnish - Saksa (Saxons)
Much love from Bulgaria. Your videos are always awesome! Тука пиша колкото някой чужденец да провери какво значи
ico tonchev хехе :)
Thanks for the video Name Explain. Do you think the suffix -ica comes from the same source? It's so similar to -ia. It could be a diminutive of it, though it seems at times to describe some large places: Africa, Antartica, America (Four out of the seven continents! (I counted America twice for North and South). As well as countries and fictional places.
The Netherlands can also be referred to by Holandia (Not just the region called Holland)
And the Dutch called a trade city they founded Batavia, the land of bataaf people(but more in-depth research into what could be a video on itself)
The "IA" suffix only appears in romance or english languages, but the "stan" suffix is used world wide, in my language for example none of these countries end with the suffix "IA"
In French every country that finished by ia are deleted and they are remplaced by -ie or -e like :
Russie for Russia
Inde for India
Ukraine to Ukraine? LOL
@@dgsf9444 haha you dumb
Similar in German where we use ~ien: Indien, Armenien, Algerien, Brasilien etc. But sometimes we just add "Land": Russland (Russia), Griechenland (Greece) etc.
This is so funny! In 4th grade, we had to make up a fictitious country and draw a map of it. My country was Rovanovia!
In Greek language the most countries ending with -ia
France Gallia
England Agglia
Germany Germania
Italy Italia
Spain Ispania
Ireland Irlandia
Scotland Skotia
Sweden Souhdia
Findland Finlandia
Norway Norbhgia etc.
Prokophs Tourkogeorgos Anglia*
@@AS-mw6pw im pretty sure the greeks call it agglia
Greek gg is pronounced a bit like English ng.
That's why "aGGelos" (messenger) became "aNGel".
Greeks should have called them Iria and Finnia though... land+ia sounds a bit redundant
@@ArturoSubutex perhaps
Asia = Asy
Australia = Australy
India = Indy
Malaysia = Malaysy
Nigeria = Nigery
Bolivia = Bolivy
Russia = Russy
Funny thing in french it sounds the same but with "ie" instead of "y"
Russia is actually what you get when you translate the Russian name in Cyrillic to Roman letters despite Russian not being involved with Latin or the -ia thing, so it's a bit of a weird anomaly since most of these call themselves different things in their language
I'm trigged when u say malaysy...
We don't have English name ok
Nathaniel Hufancia= Nathaniel Hufancy
@@hasyasofea9357 pelik² dia nih.. Pandai² ja letak malaysy. Bongok
It seems that "collective" and "location" functions of this suffix are originally the same (Germania being 'where Germans as a whole are', cf. occasional similar use of the English suffix -dom in the words like Saxondom).
Neat!
Greetings from Latvy
Here in the USA, we have loads of states with names that end in "a", but only five have a full "-ia" ending: California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. "IA", by itself, is also the two-letter postal abbreviation for the state of Iowa.
**blasts Country Roads**
Well in the USA they also have a confusing habit of randomly deciding to randomly change the names of some metals to corrupt the metalic element suffix -ium into something else too. America just doesn't really do standard conventions very well from randomly changing the spelling of only some cognates in a set of related words to randomly changing suffixes to having to be different on units no matter how many multi billion dollar bills it creates. Probably best to just chalk that one up to yet another bizarre Americanism lol.
@@seraphina985 No; I think there's more to it than that. Of the five "-ia" ending states I named, California was named by the Spaniards long before it became a state, while the others are named after European monarchs and aristocrats (Georgia after England's King George II, Pennsylvania after Colonel William Penn (father of the man to whom the original colonial land grant was given), and Virginia and West Virginia (which broke away from Virginia during the Civil War) after England's Queen Elizabeth I, aka the "Virgin Queen").
Seraphina S You are utterly wrong about aluminum. Originally, it was called alumium, at which point it’s name was changed to aluminum, but in Britain that was unpopular and they started using aluminium instead of the at the time more correct aluminum. Nowadays, both are officially accurate, but it was actually the brits that decided to ‘randomly’ change the name.
…and the *District of Columbia* ( Washington, DC )
yes.
I think you might have missed Ethiopia
@@augustinedaudu9203 Ah, I will add it.
Czechia as the official short name of Czech republic since 2016
@@eustache_dauger Ohh yeah.
*North makedonia
In Kashubian we have this wierd thing, that when a country's name is a borrowing and ends with "land" we add "-iô" which descended from "-ia" e.g. Thailand became Tajlandiô, Ísland Jislandiô, Ireland Jirlandiô and so on and so on. And this way we ended up with double "land of"
In spanish this is even crazier! We have almost every european country name finalizing in "ia"!
Here are all the names:
-Belarus: Bielorrusia
-Finland: Finlandia
-France: Francia
-Germany: Alemania
-Greece: Grecia
-Hungary: Hungría
-Iceland: Islandia
-Italy: Italia
-Moldova: Moldavia
-Poland: Polonia
-Spain: España (for those who don't know, ñ sounds as "ni", so it sounds as "Espania", then it also counts)
-Sweden: Suecia
-Turkey: Turquía
-Ukraine: Ucrania
-Great Britain: Gran Bretaña (again, it sounds as "Bretania")
And then the names that also ends in "ia" for english:
-Croatia (In spanish: Croacia)
-Latvia (Letonia)
-Lithuania (Lituania)
-Romania (Rumania)
-Russia (Rusia)
-Slovakia (Eslovaquia)
-Slovenia (Eslovenia)
(The next ones are written the same in both languages)
-Albania
-Armenia
-Austria
-Bosnia
-Bulgaria
-Estonia
-Georgia
-Macedonia
-Serbia
And this are ONLY THE EUROPEAN ONES. I could continue with other continents, but I think you get the point!
Austral in Spanish means south. Australia = south land.
Italia, Alemania, Francia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ucrania, Rusia, Letonia, Estonia, Lituania, Suecia, Finlandia, Grecia, Turquía, Argelia, Mauritania, and a big and long etc
Terra Australis = Latin for southern land. I’m Australian
östen is east in german. so that is where the österreich gets its name
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Österreich sounds so exotic. 'The Eastern Kingdom'. The images I get when I think of that name don't really match up with Austria.
@@cammarc The Eastern Realm. Konigreich is kingdom.
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Oh ok. Nearly.
Thinking about it, somehow realm sound even more exotic. I just love it! I also love that France is still called Frankreich, 'the realm of the Franks'.
In Swedish, the -land suffix is more common than it is in English. I wouldn’t say it’s more common than -ia in Swedish, or -ien as it were, but there is a noticable trend of countries using -ia in English switching to -land in Swedish, such as Russia, Latvia, Estonia etc. I think if not for the influence Latin had on English, the -land suffix would be more common, seeing as English is a Germanic language. I mean, it’s no coincidence the vikings used the -land suffix liberally to describe the parts of the world they visited, like Iceland, Greenland, Vinland, Särkland and so on. We also have a more uncommon suffix in -rike, meaning kingdom, used for France, Austria and, in an altered form, Sweden itself, we just swapped the k for a g
I have also created a fictional nation that doesn’t use the -ia suffix, instead it does the Dutch thing and uses the -lands suffix, mainly because its people are not homogenous and so describing it as the lands of a broad group of people and its subgroups is more accurate
So France would be called Frankland, and Russia be called Rusland ?
This is very similar to German, the most common suffixes are -ien, -land and occasionally -reich. Typically -ien is used for nation names that came from Latin (Italien, Rumänien) and -land for some nations away from Latin influence (Russland, Estland). -reich is used for nations that were great imperial nations hundreds of years ago before empires were common (Frankreich, Österreich). Alternatively it just takes a similar name to the Latin/English form (Schweden, Norwegen, Dänemark) probably from Latin influence.
PewDiePieia :P
Love your videos! I have been following you since you had a couple thousand subscribers, so big fan here. Just wanted to point out (for future reference) that you had a tipo. It is Portuguese, not Portugese. *Sorry, I am a Portuguese person so more attentive to these things, and my language is always the one romance language that no one cares to get right*
In Hebrew we still say it like Britania, Germania, Hungaria, Italia...
Same goes for Bulgarian.
You are so old fashioned!
Same goes for Hungary.
Same in Spanish, though Germany is Alemania. Still 'ia'. XD
Daxrash same in albanian.
You know Romanian is a romanic language, right? And in Romanian, almost every country name has the "-ia" suffix, so...
True but did he say "The most influential"?
Jake Beaudry oof that cut deep.... true tho
In polish many more european countries end with ia/ja for example Scandinavian countries are Islandia, Szwecja, Norwegia, Finladia, Dania, Spain is Hiszpania, Portugal is Portugalia, France is Francja, British Isles have Anglia, Szkocja, Walia and Irlandia. So almost everything ends with ia/ja
belgja
In my country, they are called:
Irlandia (Ireland)
Skotlandia (Scotland)
Norwegia (Norway)
Swedia (Sweden)
Islandia (Iceland)
Belgia (Belgium)
Hungaria (Hungary) Yeah, same as you mentioned in the video
Italia (Italy) same again
Polandia (Poland)
And many more
Also there are not "IA" but it was totally different from English name. They are:
Yunani (Greece)
Belanda (Netherlands)
Pantai Gading (Ivory Coast)
Mesir (Egypt)
Yay, somebody mentioned a fact about Bulgaria and didn't make any mistake. Congratz, you win the internet for today ^_^
You basically said it when you said "Australia" - The Southern Land.
Austral; meaning South(ern)
Ia; meaning Land...
no. Terra Nullus= Southern Land in Latin
Dylan Shimmi the person never said it was in latin
Lolo Xo, the point is, that name didn't actually derive from what Pomare Kaire said. It derived from Terra Nullius.
Dylan Shimmi whoops 😂 thanks for the information though as i didn’t know that.
@@Xenon-no7ie it’s directly from “australis” = “southern” in Latin, from the posited “Terra Austalis” as the counterweight continent balancing all the landmass in the northern hemisphere.
Read more: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Australia
In Italian Italy is Italia, Greece is Grecia, France is Francia, Finland is Finlandia...
Spain is España(Espanya)
@Just some weird comenter No, it's Finlandia
Some Language Fun:
In Persian and modern Iran, we usually replace country/place names that end with IA with either the Persian suffix: stan, or simply drop the IA. Here are the examples:
Albania -> Albaany
Armenia -> Armanistan
Bolivia -> Bolivy
Bosnia and Herzegovina -> Bosny va Herzegovin
Bulgaria -> Bulgharistan
Cambodia -> Cambodj
Croatia -> Crowasi
Estonia -> Estony
Ethiopia -> Ethiopy
Georgia -> Gorgistan
India -> Hind (Ind)
Indonesia - > Andonezy
Latvia -> Latony
Lithuania -> Lithwani
Libya -> Liby
Malaysia -> Malazy
Mauritania - > Mauritany
Mongolia -> Mogolistan
Romania -> Romany
Arabia -> Arabistan
Serbia -> Serbistan
Slovakia -> Slovaky
Slovenia -> Sloveny
Somalia -> Somaliy
Tunisia -> Tunis
We sometimes use alternative names for places whose names end with IA:
Algeria -> Aljazayir
Austria - > Ottriecsh
Nigeria -> Nigeriyeh
Russia -> Roussyeh
Syria -> Souriyyeh
TL;DR P.S: Iran was known as Persia before 1934.
P.S: Even though we have had always called our homeland "Iran", Up until 1934, in many parts of the world we were referred to by a name based on the ancient era Persian Empire name of "Persia". Persian is the country's lingua franca, however roughly 65% of modern-day Iran is ethnic-Persian, and 18% of the rest the population are other Iranian ethnicities which leave Iran with 66.5 million ethnic-Iranic population. the other 17% are mostly Azeri/Turks and a small minority is Arabs living in southwest Iran, near the Iraq and Kuwait borders. However this doesn't mean that this 17% have no Iranian roots; Through the coexistence of all of the mentioned ethnic groups, almost every Iranian national and citizen has Iranic Ancestry but not necessarily a Persian ancestry.
Source: Langfocus channel, Wikipedia, Personal knowledge of my native language :)
Of course, this IA is usually (EDIT: yes, Italia is Italian for Italy, but it's not the name for it from other languages) only found in the English versions... And the languages still keep it in those lost. Hungarian, Italian - even losing the I for German. Those languages are naturally also the adjectives for the nation/people/stuff from it. My Latin lesson were a long time ago but IIRC, there's an N popping up somewhere in there ;-)
Wasn't Malaysia known as Malay in the past?
You forgot to say that for many it's just the english name. For example Algeria is Algérie in french, and El-Djazair in arabic.
Yeah. The main reason for this phenomenon is because of Latin's influence on English so it doesn't really matter which places were actually influenced by the Romans since a place like Austria doesn't have an ia in German
@@elfarlaur And how Germany is just an altered form of the Latin Germania although Germans call it Deutschland
Not really. In Estonian it's Algeeria and Araabia.
@@juri9276 Still, the real name is El-Djazair, not El-Djazairia.
-ia is a greek suffix meaning "land of" referring to nations. if i remember correctly
You can add other countries to the list where a form of - ia is retained in their names in other languages.
An example is Belgium, which in Dutch is called België. The -ië is pronounced in exactly the same way as -ia
In Spanish we often use "Landia" to call some countries (Tailandia = Thailand, Islandia =Iceland) is weird because is like a combination between "land" and "ia". Maybe "ia" came from "Landia".
What do:
Cambodia, Indonesia, Romania & Satania all have in common?
They're all bullied and forgotten :(
*STOP BULLY MEH*
Damn I’m from Indonesia
In Italian a majority of countries have the suffix ia.
Perché in latino era così.
The same about russian
România
same in romanian
Same in polish
For example Francia, Anglia, Norwegia... And so on
In The Lithuanian Language Every country has ia or as we call it ija ( J as in like the Y in Yacht) for example; Germany is Vokietija, Japan is Japonija, France is Prancūzija, China is Kinija and so on and so fourth.
Edit: There are aa couple exeptions Like Ukraine being Ukraina, America being Amerika, Thailand being Tailandas and some more, but still most of them end in ija
Is Indonesia not in Asia for you?
Even the mighty continent such as the Atlantis is actually called as atlantia or even lemuria
Can you do the names of English counties like Essex Sussex etc?
Lewis Matthews There named after the Saxons
They like sex
@@thomasturner6980 they were probably the locations of ancient Roman brothels or something
Sex is from Saxon and Es and Sus from east and south. You also have Wessex and Middlesex, both no longer exist. There is also norfolk and suffolk, folk meaning people, no change there.
I'm writing a book and for country names I've been specifically avoiding the -ia suffix. For wach country I either end it in -ium, -tis, or -ev
The stand and stine suffix indeed appears in several places in the world as that suffix means land. Evidence England, Ireland, Scotland, Gotland. Just to name several
Can you please do name explain Cyprus??
There may be an etymological connection between Cyprus and copper, for which the island is famous.
I dont know but it goes back in Homer era.
@@ByzantineCalvinist There is also a possibility that the name comes from the Greek word Kypris, which was used to describe the goddess Aphrodite by Homer
That, or her alternative name of Kypris came from the island.
@@ByzantineCalvinist Well... The name Kypros(or Κύπρος, in Greek) existed before the Latins came to Cyprus. Many people had it as part of their names like Αριστόκυπρος, Αριστοκύπρα, Θεμιστοκύπρα, Κυπραγόρας, Κυπρόθεμις, Κυπροκράνης, Ονασίκυπρος, Πασίκυπρος, Στασίκυπρος, Τιμόκυπρος, Φιλόκυπρος. So, the name Cuprum(copper) comes from the Greek Kypros.
The times of Homer were before the Latins came to Cyprus. And the word already existed
When your country ends with the letter IA
1:32 here in italy we don't change with Y, we leave the IA
Totally off topic but here's a video idea;
Comparison of madeira cake and the madeira islands. The cake isn't named after the islands contrary to popular belief!
From algeria 😌🤚
No one cares.😭
@@surge5240 how could u say that i'm gonna cry now 😭😭
@@ramzi2685 🤪
@@surge5240 More people than your comment!
@@surge5240 Then why bother replying? Lmao
"Well, from my research, it doesn't have one exact meaning..."
My brain: So why are you watching this?
Me: STFU! This is some quality content yow.
In russian all the european countries, except city-states, Netherlands, Bosnia and Hercegovina and also Poland and Lithuania, where the names in russian are borrowed from the native languages of those places, end with "-ia".
The weird part is Ireland becomes Irlandia, Iceland -> Islandia(s is not silent and I in both cases like in "Inadvertently"), etc.
Correction* it shows the effect that Greek has had on the languages of Europe and through them on all of the world.
Very minor mistake, but you forgot Armenia and Ethiopia on the thumbnail.
The Duke Of Wellington thankyou!!! 😭like I was so sad and i had to think for a second if it had an ia 😭
What about *KOLECHIA* ?
Edit: It from Papers, Please, geez.
Or Antegria? Or Republia?
As a Spanish speaker I always thought that AI was a suffix that usually meant land. Something like the patronymic names "son of" in Spanish EZ or SON from other languages, or the same English "land" in the names of the countries.
The Cunard line named their ships with the suffix '-ia' (e.g. RMS Lusitania, Mauritania, etc.)
You forgot THICKANIA.
If you get that reference thank you.
I have never thought of that question in my entire life.
Who else👆?
👇
It is probably because -a is 1 singular case in latin like in german you have schön-e but because it often is hard to say try germana you almost instantly but the i there that is called a bind vocal and nowadays it's just something you but behind countries flowers etc.
To further explain cases in latin
First group is female singular
Rosa
Rosae
Rosae
Rosam
Rosa
Multiple
Rosae
Rosarum
Rosis
Rosas
Rosis
Also states of being like euphoria and inertia. Any mental problem like a phobia or amnesia, sexual abnormalities like necrophilia but also just hobbyist interests like bibliophilia (love of books).
Then you've got the plurals and categories of latin names for buildings and disciplines like gymnasia, cafeteria, and academia.
That guy: We refer to coutrys AS females
Hetalians: Ok.
Some historians believe that bulgar means ,, bright people'' or some related enlightened people, people of the light.
Българин03 привет из волжской булгарии!
I thought the name Bulgaria came from the word Volga (of which, I don't know the meaning)
Shard The Volga is a Russian name of river Idel
@@samsonmiodek Idel(or variations of it) are of Turkic origin. The name Volga is of Slavic origin.
Еехеее, най-накрая срещам българин
I just remembered that -ia ending in Latin is used for plural neuter gender like animal - animalia, mare (sea) - maria (seas)
I like the Duck Soup reference