How did England get it's name?

Question

And if you can, maybe you could tell me about Scottland, Whales and Ireland...
Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

The name "England" is derived from "Engla-lond" or "land of the Angles". It is often incorrectly used as a synonym for Great Britain or the United Kingdom by some, which is inaccurate and can be offensive.

England has existed as a unified entity since the 10th century. Wales, under English control since the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284, became part of the Kingdom of England by the 1536 Act of Union. In the 1707 Act of Union, the separate kingdoms of England and Scotland, having shared the same monarch since 1603, agreed to permanent union as the Kingdom of Great Britain. The 1801 Act of Union, the Kingdom of Great Britain merged with the Kingdom of Ireland, which had been gradually brought under English control between 1169 and 1603, to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. With the formation of 26 Irish counties into the Irish Free State in 1922, the six remaining Ulster counties remaining part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland, the country was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927. The nation had two periods of republican rule in the 17th century before reverting to a monarchy in 1660.

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Answer 2

Originally the name was Englaland, the land of the Engles, or Angles, who came over from Sleswick, a province of Jutland. Engel (variously spelled), is an old Teutonic word, meaning "angel."

Wales: Derived from Wealas, "foreigners," or "Welsh," a name given by the Anglo-Saxon invaders to the natives of Britain. Wales is a plural form denoting the people, which afterwards acquired a territorial significance.

Ireland: Was the Roman Hibernia, the Greek Ierne, and the Keltic Erin. The usual explanation of the name is from the Keltic iar "behind," and hence "to the west," or "western isle."

Answer 3

~It is named after the Germanic conquerors of the nation - the Angles: Old English Engla Land, shortened to England.

Wales: from the germanic Walha

Scotland: referenced in 10th century Anglo-Saxon chronicles as Scotia (another fine german name)

Ireland: from Eire, a derivation of Eriu, the gaelic goddess.

I suspect that most Brits don't realize that they come from conquered and outcast teutons, but the names speak for themselves.

Etymology is easy - give it try.

Answer 4

remember the angles and the saxons?
England- angles
the scots (Scotland) were an irish clan
ireland in irish is 'eire' and then the german word 'land'... sounds to us like Ireland
eire some godess that did something big... you know.. helped the gaels conquer the land (ireland for their own)
wales..um.. wasn't impressive.. something about the welsh term for traveller or something

Answer 5

England:
Derived from the Old English name Englaland, literally translatable as "land of the Angles".

Scotland:
Land of the Scots, from Old English Scottas, "inhabitants of Ireland." Old English borrowed the word from late Latin Scotti, of unknown origin. It may possibly have come from an Irish term of scorn, scuit. After the departure of the Romans from Britain in 423, an Irish tribe invaded Scotland, and the name came with them. It later extended to other Irish who settled in the northern regions of Britain.

Wales:
From Old English Waelisc, Walh, meaning "Romano-Celtic" or more generally "foreign" (actually, Old English Waelisc also provides the source of English word Welsh). Anglo-Saxons used their version of an Old Teutonic term to apply to speakers of Celtic languages as well as to speakers of Latin. The same etymology applies to walnuts as well as to Cornwall in Britain and to Wallonia in Belgium. Old Church Slavonic also borrowed the term from the Germanic, and it served as the origin of the name of the Romanian region of Walachia.

Ireland:
After Éire from Proto-Celtic *Īweriū "the fertile place" or "Place of Éire (Eriu)" a Celtic fertility goddess. Often mistakenly derived as "Land of Iron"

Answer 6

Wow.... what do you want people to write a book? That's alot of information you want there........ just go buy a book on the history of those places because first of all.... no one here is going to be able to explain it in a few words and some people are just "know it alls" and will give you false info.

Answer 7

Tell me how any country got its name first. The obvious case if Germany. Why do we call it that and the German people call it Deutschland. noone really knows these answers. The evolution of language

Answer 8

Google it with "history" in the search.