May I please know the various origins of the name America ? Was there a tribe named Americ/Ameris/Amerish ?

Question

Was America named after that tribe ? A statue in Ellis Island is said to have statues of that tribe's man & of Mr Manhattan who got the land from that tribe.

I do not want theories of the origin of the name of America.

Answer 1

Possibly a Bristol merchant Richard Amerike. Check out this book called Terra Incognita the story of how America was named.

Then again it could have been the notorious map maker pornographer Amerigo who knows?

Answer 2

"The earliest known use of the name America for this particular landmass dates from 1507. It appears on a globe and a large map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, explains that the name was derived from the Latinized version of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, Americus Vespucius, in its feminine form, America, as the other continents all have Latin feminine names.

Vespucci's role in the naming issue, like his exploratory activity, is unclear and most probably a tale. Some sources say that he was unaware of the widespread use of his name to refer to the new landmass. Others hold that he promulgated a story that he had made a secret voyage westward and sighted land in 1491, a year before Columbus. If he did indeed make such claims, they backfired, and only served to prolong the ongoing debate on whether the "Indies" were really a new land, or just an extension of Asia."

Answer 3

This land the American Continent, was named after Americo Vespucci who made the first map of the continent but based on the writing of others, he never knew America.
He signed the maps with his name and omitted his last name. The Italian word Amerige is from the Greek Ameri is land land ge means continent.And because all the names of the continents were of women they choose America the feminine of Americo. Read the link Bellow for more inf.
THERE IS NO TRIBE NAMED AMERICA, THERE ARE NATIVE AMERICANS THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF AMERICA

Answer 4

From wikpedia:

The earliest known use of the name America for this particular landmass dates from 1507. It appears on a globe and a large map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, explains that the name was derived from the Latinized version of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, Americus Vespucius, in its feminine form, America, as the other continents all have Latin feminine names.

Vespucci's role in the naming issue, like his exploratory activity, is unclear and most probably a tale. Some sources say that he was unaware of the widespread use of his name to refer to the new landmass. Others hold that he promulgated a story that he had made a secret voyage westward and sighted land in 1491, a year before Columbus. If he did indeed make such claims, they backfired, and only served to prolong the ongoing debate on whether the "Indies" were really a new land, or just an extension of Asia.

However, as Dr. Basil Cottle (Author, Dictionary of Surnames, 1967) points out, new countries or continents are never named after a person's first name, always after their second name. Thus, America should really have become Vespucci Land or Vespuccia if the Italian explorer really gave his name to the newly discovered continent. Christopher Columbus, who had first brought the continents' existence to the attention of Renaissance era voyagers, had died in 1506 (believing, to the end, that he'd discovered and colonized part of India) and could not protest Waldseemüller's decision.


Map of America by Jonghe, c. 1770.A few alternative theories regarding the landmass' naming have been proposed, but none of them has achieved any widespread acceptance.

One alternative, first advanced by Jules Marcou in 1875 and later recounted by novelist Jan Carew, is that the name America derives from the district of Amerrique in Nicaragua. The gold-rich district of Amerrique was purportedly visited by both Vespucci and Columbus, for whom the name became synonymous with gold. According to Marcou, Vespucci later applied the name to the New World, and even changed the spelling of his own name from Alberigo to Amerigo to reflect the importance of the discovery.

Another theory, first proposed by a Bristol antiquary and naturalist, Alfred Hudd, in 1908 was that America is derived from Richard Amerike, a merchant from Bristol, who is believed to have financed John Cabot's voyage of discovery from England to Newfoundland in 1497 as found in some documents from Westminster Abbye a few decades ago. Supposedly, Bristol fishermen had been visiting the coast of North America for at least a century before Columbus' voyage and Waldseemüller's maps are alleged to incorporate information from the early English journeys to North America. The theory holds that a variant of Amerike's name appeared on an early English map (of which however no copies survive) and that this was the true inspiration for Waldseemüller.

Answer 5

North and South America are named for Amerigo Vespuccci, an Italian map maker and the first to create an accurate map of the new world.

Answer 6

Americas Vesputius.

Answer 7

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 8

It's odd that Vespucci, a minor explorer got two continents named after him.
Another theory is that it is named after a term in the Freemason's creed. They go to somewhere in the west called Merica. Many of the people, i.e. men, in political power in Europe were Freemasons.

Answer 9

An Italian sailor and map maker named Americas, named it after himself, shortened to America.

Answer 10

Amerigo Vespuci... he made a map out of america and some idiot misread his signature and named the country America