CivWiki

List of nations by name etymology: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

List of nations by name etymology (view source)

Revision as of 13:50, 25 August 2022

2,173 bytes added ,  1 year ago
m
Text replacement - "{{flag|Icenia}}" to "{{flag|Icenia (CivClassic 2.0)|name=Icenia}}"
VisualWikitext
No edit summary
m (Text replacement - "{{flag|Icenia}}" to "{{flag|Icenia (CivClassic 2.0)|name=Icenia}}")
 
(24 intermediate revisions by 10 users not shown)
Line 8:
!Notes
|-
|[[Mount Augusta (CivMC)|Mount Augusta]]
|
|
Line 15:
|German
|Approximate meaning of "Mountain Fortress".
|-
|[[Birmingham]]
|English
|Named after the city of Birmingham, England.
|-
|[[Blackrock]]
|English
|Named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock BlackRock, Inc.]
|-
|[[Camiseo]]
|
|
|-
|Chungunese Sultanate
|English
|Named after the perennial Reddit meme "Big Chungus".
|-
|Crystalis
Line 54 ⟶ 42:
|Falkorst
|Scottish?
|
|-
|Flesh Hive
|English
|Meat
|-
|Fljora
|Scandinavian
|
|-
|Georgia
|
|
|-
Line 75 ⟶ 51:
|Greek
|Named after the mythological bird.
|-
|{{flag|Hyperborean Confederation}}
|Greek
|Named after the mythical continent of the Great North
|-
|Icenia
Line 103 ⟶ 83:
|German
|
|-
| Liyue Dynasty
|Chinese
| Based off the entity of the same name in the Chinese mobile game "Genshin Impact".
|-
|[[Lopreonia]]
|Middle English
|Founder used [https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/ Fantasy Name Generator] and picked it.
|-
|Mercury
Line 128 ⟶ 100:
| Named after the country.
|-
|[[Myra]]
|Mondstadt
|Turkish/Greek
|German
|Named after Myra<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra</ref>, a settlement in Turkey prior to 2005.
| Based off the entity of the same name in the Chinese mobile game "Genshin Impact".
|-
|Nassau
Line 139 ⟶ 111:
|Japan
| Named for the Japanese city.
|-
|Otonabee
|
|
|-
|Pavia
Line 159 ⟶ 127:
|English
| Named after the U.S. state.
|-
| Roman Spanish Federation
|English
|
|-
|Rozia
|
|
|-
|S.C.U.M.
|English
|
|-
|Sovereign
|English
|Presumably named after a head of state, or a ruler.
|-
|Tenants' Toil
Line 184 ⟶ 140:
| Named after the Titans.
|-
|[[{{flag|The State]]}}
|English
| Named after the concept of geopoltical entities.
|-
|{{flag|Holy Truidencian Empire}}
|Toontown
|None
|English
|Presumably named after the video game ''ToonTown''.
|-
|[[Holy Truidencian Empire]]
|English
| Cross between [[Imperial Truidence]] and the Holy Roman Empire.
|-
|[[Winterbourne]]
|English
|
|-
|Z'teppekhov Horde
|Cyrillic?
|
|}
Line 215 ⟶ 163:
|English
| Comes from the English region of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston Aston].
|-
|{{Flagicon|Columbia}} [[Columbia (CivRev)]]
|Latin
|Name taken from [[Columbia]].
|-
|{{flag|Fortuna}}
|Italian
| Means 'fortune'. Named after the Roman goddess of luck.
|-
|Garfield Island (CivRev 2.0)
|English
|Garfield, the eponymous character of the famous comic strip by Jim Davis.
|-
|{{flag|Holy Shaded Empire}}
|English
|Combination of the names of [[Holy Jaded Empire]] and the player [[Convoy|bonkill]].
|-
|{{Flagicon|Hyperborean Confederation}} [[Hyperborean Confederation (CivRev)]]
|Greek
| Named after the Continent of [[Hyperborea]], the Great North
|-
|{{flag|Icarus}}
Line 232 ⟶ 196:
|CivClassic 2.0 nation of Lambat.
|-
|Lusitania (CivRev)
|{{flag|Partyland 2}}
|Latin
|English
|CivClassic 2.0 nation of Lusitania.
| Named after [[Partyland]] and based on the American tradition of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-video direct-to-video sequels].
|-
|{{flag|Fortuna}}
|Italian
| Means 'fortune'. Named after the Roman goddess of luck.
|-
|[[Numenor]]
|High Elvish
|Named after a continent in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium.
|-
|{{flag|Holy Shaded Empire}}
|English
|Combination of the names of [[Holy Jaded Empire]] and the player [[Convoy|bonkill]].
|-
|{{Flagicon|Columbia}} [[Columbia (CivRev)]]
|Latin
|Name taken from [[Columbia]].
|-
|{{Flagicon|Hyperborean Confederation}} [[Hyperborean Confederation (CivRev)]]
|Greek
| Named after the Continent of [[Hyperborea]], the Great North
|-
|[[Sovia (CivRev)|Free Territory of Sovia]]
|English
| Named after Sovia, with the Free Territory naming implying the anarchist nature of the country
|-
|[[Narra]]
Line 264 ⟶ 208:
|''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterocarpus_indicus Pterocarpus indicus],'' national tree of the Philippines.
|-
|{{flag|Partyland 2}}
|Lusitania (CivRev)
|English
|Latin
| Named after [[Partyland]] and based on the American tradition of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-video direct-to-video sequels].
|CivClassic 2.0 nation of Lusitania.
|-
|[[Rizalia]] (CivRev 2.0)
|Filipino
| Named after Jose Rizal, Filipino author, ophthalmologist, and polymath executed by Spain, sparking the Philippine revolution. The surname of Rizal is of Spanish origin.
|-
|[[Sovia (CivRev)|Free Territory of Sovia]]
|English
| Named after Sovia, with the Free Territory naming implying the anarchist nature of the country
|-
|{{flag|Saint Lola}}
Line 277 ⟶ 225:
|-
|[[São Tomé]]
|Portuguese
|Portugese
| Named after an island that makes up part of the nation of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe São Tomé and Príncipe]
|}
Line 291 ⟶ 239:
|Debated
|"Nor-" could derive from proto-germanic "north": "[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/nur%C3%BEr%C4%85 nurþrą]" and "-lund" either from proto-germanic "land": "[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/land%C4%85 landą]" or old-norse "grove": "[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lundr#Old_Norse lundr]"
|-
|[[Varathia]]
|
|Based on [https://magium.fandom.com/wiki/Varathia "Varathia"] from the Text RPG Magium
|-
|{{flag|Otonabee}}
|Ojibwe
|Named after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otonabee_River Otonabee River] in Ontario, Canada. Named ''Odoonabii-ziibi'' in Ojibwe, for from the words ''ode'' which means "heart" and ''odemgat'' that comes from "boiling water". It translates into ''"the river that beats like a heart"''
 
|-
|}
Line 303 ⟶ 260:
|{{flag|Acadia}}
|French
| Comes from a name for a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia region in Canada] that once hosted French settlers, that were later expelled during the Seven Years' War.
|-
|{{flag|Adina}}
Line 311 ⟶ 268:
|[[Äggland]]
|Swedish
| Named after [[Agania|Agania.]] Also from the Swedish words for Egg (Ägg) and Country (Land).
|-
|{{flag|Amyr}}
Line 320 ⟶ 277:
|Greek
 
| Comes from the writings of ''Plato''.
|-
|{{flag|Astonia}}
|English
| Comes from the English region of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston Aston]
|-
|{{flag|Batavia}}
Line 332 ⟶ 289:
|{{flag|Beretia}}
|French
| Named for [[Beretism]], the state religion, which was named after a youtuber named RedBeret, which is a combination of the English word Red, and the French word Beret.
|-
|[[Boatmurdered]]
|English
| Comes from the name of a famous let's play of ''Dwarf Fortress''.
|-
|[[Buckeye]]
Line 344 ⟶ 301:
|{{flag|Caledonia}}
|Latin
| Roman name for Scotland.
|-
|{{flag|Capeland}}
|English
| Named in honor of its main settlement, Cape Cocoa.
|-
|[[Christopia]]
|English
|Named after ChrisChispie and Chris-Chan
|-
|{{flag|Columbia}}
|Latin
| There is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia one country], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia one Canadian province], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C. one U.S federal district] named Columbia. The name comes from a Latin feminized form of the name [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus Christopher Columbus]
|-
|{{flag|Communist Cities Caretaker-Protectorate}}
|English
|Acronym deliberately the same as the Russian acronym for the Soviet Union (CCCP).
|-
|{{flag|Confederation of Socialist Augusta}}
|English
|NameIronically describesreferring to the Confederate States of America, as well as describing its nature ("Augusta" in the name refers to [[Geographical Regions#Greater Augusta|the Augustan region]]). Further a
|-
|{{flag|Cortesia Del Mar}}
Line 371 ⟶ 328:
|-
|{{flag|Imperial Federation of Eddie Murphy}}
|English
| Named after the actor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Murphy Eddie Murphy], known for such movies as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_to_America Coming to America] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_Cop Beverly Hills Cop].
|-
|{{flag|City of England}}
|English
| Named after the viral 2017 meme [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/england-is-my-city England Is My City].
|-
|{{flag|Kingdom of Fish}}
Line 392 ⟶ 349:
|{{flag|Gensokyo}}
|Japanese
| Comes from the name of [https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Gensokyo the primary setting] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_Project ''Touhou Project'']. Gensokyo is variously translated as "[https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Lotus_Land_Story Lotus Land]", "land of dreams" and "Wonderland".
|-
|{{flag|Gigachadtopia}}
|English
| Named after [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gigachad Gigachad].
|-
|{{flag|Gondolin}}
|Sindarin
| Named after the city of Gondolin in ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion The Silmarillion].''
|-
|[[Gempire]]
| English
|Presumably a combination of the words Gem and Empire. May also be a Steven Universe reference, but this is unknown.
|-
|{{flag|Hjaltland}}
|Old Norse
| Comes from the Old Norse name for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland The Shetland Islands]
|-
|{{flag|Imperial Truidence}}
|None
|English
| Named by a random name generator.
|-
|{{flag|Icenia (CivClassic 2.0)|name=Icenia}}
|Latin
| Named after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceni Iceni tribe] of Roman Britain.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/IcenianHistory/comments/dirrxj/on_the_origin_and_name_of_icenia/</ref>
|-
|{{flag|Jolington}}
|English
| Combination of the name of [[SinjoroJoCrafter]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington,_Texas Arlington, Texas].
|-
|{{flag|Kallos}}
Line 432 ⟶ 389:
|{{flag|Krowatia}}
|Russian
| Comes from the name of Rowa's capital Krowa.
|-
|{{flag|Laconia}}
|Greek
| Named after a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia region of Greece] that the city of Sparta resided in.
|-
|{{flag|Lambat (CivClassic 2.0)|name=Lambat}}
| Tagalog (Filipino)
| Translates to "fishing net", in an [https://discord.com/channels/810436686021394492/846374210979758100/890490336047161394 undisclosed reference].
|-
|{{flag|Lusitania (CivClassic 2.0)|name=Lusitania}}
|Latin
| Named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitania an ancient Roman province in what is now Portugal] due to it's heavy basis on Portuguese customs.
|-
|{{flag|Lumière}}
| French
|French for "light".
|-
|[[Mauritanië]]
|French
| Named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania Mauritania].
|-
|{{flag|Mir}}
Line 464 ⟶ 421:
|{{flag|Mount September}}
|English
|[[Mount Augusta (CivClassic 2.0)|Mount Augusta]] plus one month.
|-
|[[Mount Augusta (CivClassic 2.0)|Mount Augusta]]
Line 472 ⟶ 429:
|{{flag|Mythril}}
|Sindarin
| Comes from J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium.
|-
|{{flag|Nipplerock}}
Line 484 ⟶ 441:
|[[Nudist Beach]]
|English
| Comes from the name of an anti-government resistance group in the anime ''Kill La Kill''.
|-
|{{flag|Nyasaland}}
|English
| Comes from the name of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyasaland British colony] that is currently the nation of Malawi. It is also named for [https://rezero.fandom.com/wiki/Ferris cat"girl"s].
|-
|[[Ossenkirch]]
Line 496 ⟶ 453:
|{{flag|Okashima}}
|Japanese
| Named by [[Neosaur]] after the words "Tree" and "Island" in japanese<ref>{{Cdisc|server=Yoahtl|channel=marketplace-of-shuba|sender=NeoTide|sender-link=Neosaur|text=if anyone's adding to it, Okashima was named for the words "Tree" and "island" in japanese
i think i came up with it|date=February 6th, 2022|access-date=February 6th, 2022|url=https://discord.com/channels/278045721742147586/670060843274338335/940023296819343390}}</ref>
|-
Line 509 ⟶ 466:
|[[Piltover]]
|English?
| Named after a town in League of Legends.
|-
|[[Pogland]]
Line 521 ⟶ 478:
|[[Risk Republic]]
|English
| Named after the ''Roblox'' group ''<nowiki/>'Risk Universalis'''.
|-
|[[Rowa]]
Line 527 ⟶ 484:
| Rowa, or ''Гоша'' comes from the russian fashion designer ''Gosha Rubchinskiy''. (Гоша Рубчинский)
|-
|{{flag|South Augusta}}
|English
|Name describes its location ("Augusta" in the name refers to [[Geographical Regions#Greater Augusta|the Augustan region]])
|-
|{{flag|Southshire}}
|English
| Named for the fact it was once the southernmost region of [[The Commonwealth]].
|-
|{{flag|Sovia}}
Line 541 ⟶ 498:
|{{flag|SPQR}}
|Latin
| Comes from the motto of the Roman Republic, "Senatus Populusque Romanus" (The Senate and the People of Rome)
|-
|{{flag|Sussex}}
|English
| Named after Sussex Courthouse, in keeping with former land occupant [[Appomattox]], similarly named after a courthouse.
|-
|[[Shrimptopia]]
|English
| Named after its founder, [[WimpyShrimp]].
|-
|[[Thalassocracy]]
|Greek
| Means 'Maritime Empire'.
|-
|{{flag|Tierra de Conciencia}}
|Spanish
|Means 'land of conscience'.
|-
|[[Riverland]]
Line 565 ⟶ 522:
|{{flag|Varkonia}}
|None
| Named after the player [[Varkanos]].
|-
|{{flag|Veldt}}
|Dutch
| Named after the book [https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/163728/The%20Veldt%20-%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf?sequence=1 of the same name] by Ray Bradbury, which the founder was inspired to read after listening to the song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_esYONwdKuw The Veldt].
|-
|{{flag|Verda}}
Line 584 ⟶ 541:
|-
|{{flag|Yoahtl}}
| Nahuatl
|Roughly translates to "noble struggle" or "great war" in Nahuatl.<ref>{{Cdisc|sender=Im sorry bg|sender-link=bgbba|date=February 6th, 2022|channel=marketplace-of-shuba|server=Yoahtl|text=Yoahtl roughly translates to ‘noble struggle’ or ‘great war’ in Nahuatl
It was named that by Eaohtl who was our leader on factions servers years ago
Line 596 ⟶ 553:
!Language of Origin
!Notes
|-
|Abyssi
|
|
|-
|Abyssima
|
|Named by combining the names of Abyssi and Kolima
|-
|Acacia
|
|
|-
|Aeon
Line 601 ⟶ 570:
|
|-
|Akihabara
|Aurora
|
|
|-
|Ancona
|Aytos
|
|
|-
|Aradesh
|
|
|-
|Arrakeen
|
|
|-
|Atlas
|
|
|-
|Atolia
|
|
|-
|[[Aurora (Civcraft 2.0)|Aurora]]
|
|
|-
|[[Aytos]]
|
|
|-
|Balkania
|
|
|-
|Beneshire
|
|
|-
|Blackcrown
|English
|
|-
|Bohemia
|
|
|-
|Brimstone
|Carbon
|
|
|-
|[[Bryn]]
|Carson
|
|
|-
|Cairdeas
|
|
|-
|Caledonia
|
|
|-
|[[Carbon]]
|
|
|-
|[[Carson (Civcraft)|Carson]]
|
|
|-
|Catalonia
|
|
|-
|[[Centauri]]
|
|
|-
|Chanada
|
|
|-
|Chanos
|
|
|-
|Churchill
|English
|
|-
|Cian
|
|
|-
|Claytican
|Commonwealth
|
|
|-
|Cuba
|Fellowship
|
|
|-
|[[Commonwealth (2.0)|Commonwealth]]
|English
|
|-
|Defem
|
|
|-
|Donetsk
|
|
|-
|Eclipse
|English
|
|-
|Epicus
|
|
|-
|Eros Varos
|
|
|-
|Eterna
|
|
|-
|Federal Assembly
|English
|
|-
|[[Fellowship]]
|English
|
|-
|Fourty-Two
|English
|
|-
|[[Federal Socialist Republics]]
|
|
|-
|Freedom
|English
|
|-
|Gardizona
|FSR
|
|
|-
|[[Garundistan]]
|Gensokyo
|
|
|-
|[[Gensokyo]]
|Grundeswald
|
|
|-
|Goodsprings
|Hjaltland
|English
|
|-
|[[Grundeswald]]
|
|
|-
|Haven
|Icenia
|English
|
|-
|[[Hjaltland]]
|
|
|-
|Hobbiton
|
|
|-
|Holy Krautchan Empire
|
|
|-
|[[Holy Tree (Civcraft 2.0)|Holy Tree]]
|English
|
|-
|[[Icenia (Civcraft 2.0)|Icenia]]
|
|
Line 669 ⟶ 770:
|
|-
|[[Iria]]
|
|
|-
|Isle of Arran
|
|
|-
|Istanbul
|Lio
|
|
|-
|Jericho
|Loveshack
|
|
|-
|Kaiserinreich
|Megaton
|
|
|-
|Kappi
|Mount Augusta
|
|
|-
|Kolima
|New Brynley
|
|
|-
|[[Lio]]
|New Leningrad
|
|
|-
|Little Latvia
|
|
|-
|[[Loveshack]]
|English
|
|-
|LSIF
|English
|
|-
|Lux Federation
|
|
|-
| Megaton
|
|
|-
|Metropolis
|
|
|-
|Minas Minas
|
|
|-
|[[Mir]]
|Russian
|
|-
|Monaco
|
|
|-
|[[Mount Augusta (Civcraft 2.0)|Mount Augusta]]
|
|
|-
|New Augusta
|
|
|-
|[[New Brynley]]
|English
|
|-
|New Covenant
|English
|
|-
|[[New Leningrad]]
|
|
Line 703 ⟶ 860:
|[[File:NDZflag.png|22px]] [[New Danzilona]]
|Slavic/German
| Named by one of its founders after the heavy metal band [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danzig_(band) Danzig]
|-
|New Sayvard
|Nine
|
|
|-
|Newtro
|Nox
|
|
|-
|Nexus
|Orion
|
|
|-
|Nine
|Pella
|English
|
|-
|[[Nox (Civcraft 2.0)|Nox]]
|
|
|-
|Olympia
|Greek
|
|-
|[[Orion]]
|
|
|-
|[[Pellan Empire|Pella]]
|Greek
|
|-
|Pemberly
|
|
Line 725 ⟶ 902:
|
|-
|Polska
|Prussia
|Polish
|
|-
|[[Volkstadt|Polynesia]]
|
|
|-
|Proletarskaya
|Ravenport
|Russian
|
|-
|[[Prussia]]
|German
|
|-
|Quito
|
|
|-
|[[Ravenport]]
|English
|
|-
|Remnant
|English
|
|-
|Riverford
|English
|
|-
|Rosewall
|English
|
|-
Line 741 ⟶ 942:
|
|-
|Russian Federation
|Little Latvia
|Russian/English
|
|-
|Sandy Shores
|English
|
|-
|[[Saraliana]]
|
|
|-
|[[Savion]]
|
|
|-
|Shadap Gahar
|
|
|-
|Senntisten
|Hungarian
|
|-
|Silesia
|Slavic/German
|
|-
|Sky City
|English
|
|-
|Skywatch
|English
|
|-
|Spainland
|Tropica
|
|
|-
|Stoneburrow
|English
|
|-
|Suilven
|
|
|-
|[[Terminus]]
|
|
|-
|Thornia
|
|
|-
|Thule
|
|
|-
|Trenzalore
|
|
|-
|[[Tropica]]
|English
|
|-
|[[United Provinces of the Plus Plus|U3P]]
|
|
|-
|UIA
|
|
|-
|Ulaanbaatar
|
|
|-
|Vale
|English
|A product of Nexus renaming after bad PR under the former name
|-
|[[Valeaum]]
|
|
|-
|[[Valex]]
|
|
Line 761 ⟶ 1,038:
|
|-
|Venice
|Volterra
|Italian/English
|
|-
|Versailles
|French
|
|-
|Viridian
|
|
|-
|[[Volterra]]
|
|
|-
|[[Xia]]
|
|
|-
|Xiphias
|
|
|-
|[[Yoahtl]]
|Nahuatl
|
|-
|Waldenherz
|German
|
|-
|Western Empire
|Xia
|
|
|-
|Zixusa
|Yoahtl
|
|
Retrieved from "https://civwiki.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/48532...54759"