List of country and place name origins

[Richard Roman]

Following on from mahatma Jack's posting on the origins of words, this is for everyone to tell us where they are from and what the word means (And H/T to Ferney for coming up with the idea)

I will start off with England:

England’s name originally comes from the term “Land of the Angles”, which was translated to Engla Land in Old English. The Angles were an ancient Germanic (or Saxon) tribe, one of the few that occupied the region now known as England during the Early Middle Ages (a period that stretched from about 400 to 1000 AD. This tribe hailed from an area in the Bay of Kiel known as the Angeln Peninsula. This is situated in the Baltic Sea

And the city I am from is Leeds

Old English Leodis (a Celtic kingdom), from Brythonic Lādenses (“people living by the fast-flowing river”).

 

 

Ok - now its your turn!

[David Emmerson Nicholson]

England- Richard already explained hehe

I was born in Coventry

Coventry could come from "Cofa's tree", no one knows what Cofa is, but a tree could have been in the centre or marked a boundary of the settlement. Alternatively some believe "Coventre", derived from the words "Coven" (old variation of "Convent") and "tre" (celtic: "settlement" or "town").