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▶ In this video I talk about the suffixes in country names. Understanding there are 3 major groups of suffixes for country names in the English language: the "-Lands", the "-Stans", and the "-Ias". And learning how the meanings of these three suffixes are exactly the same, changing only in their origin, all meaning "land of". The "-lands" originate from English, the "-stans" from central-south asia / turkic languages, and the "-ias" from latin, which sometimes are adapted and transformed to "-y". In addition to those, we go through all the other country name endings, figuring out which countries have common endings to their names and attempting to understand why. Through this analysis we learn that many countries do, in fact, have common name endings; but that these are most cases the product of a coincidence or simply a common name origin, not necessarily denoting a common suffix. Also leading to the conclusion that, in order for a suffix to exist, we not only need a common ending (in the sense of common letters) but also a common final syllable - that being a requirement for the existence of a common suffix, but not necessarily a correlation situation where a common final syllable instantly equals a suffix, as it often does not.
▶ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
01:10 The 3 Main Suffix Groups
01:31 The "-Stans"
01:40 The "-Lands"
02:02 The "-ias"
02:36 Similar Endings That Aren't Suffixes
02:42 "-Or" Endings
02:57 "-An" Endings
03:08 "-Gal" / "-Al" Endings
03:25 "-Ua" Endings
03:27 "-ina" Endings
03:32 "-ain" Endings
03:35 "-os" Endings
03:38 "-Rus" / "-Us" Endings
03:40 "-in" Endings
03:52 "-Da" Endings
03:57 "-Dad" Endings
03:57 The Congos
04:06 "-ica" Endings
04:11 "-On" Endings
04:15 "-Ana" Endings
04:19 "-Ar" Endings
04:24 How a Suffix needs to be a Syllable
04:45 "-Co" Endings
04:52 "-Ru" Endings
04:54 "-Au" Endings
04:57 "-ine" Endings
05:08 "-ines" Endings
05:14 "-Ama" Endings
05:18 "-Guay" Endings
05:34 "-Anda" Endings
05:37 "-Go" Endings
05:42 "-La" Endings
05:44 "-Ce" Endings
05:45 Similar Endings ≠ Same Suffixes
06:03 Countries with unique name endings
06:22 What do the Suffixes Mean?
06:29 What does "-Stan" Mean?
07:20 What does "-Land" Mean?
07:37 What does "-ia" Mean?
08:32 The "-ia" vs the "y" Demonym
09:05 Specific examples of countries with similar name endings
09:16 ParaGUAY vs UruGUAY
09:34 RwANDA vs UgANDA
10:08 Why do so many countries names end with "-An"?
11:04 The ground rule for common suffixes
11:16 SeneGAL vs PortuGAL
11:38 Why these aren't common suffixes
12:00 Summary
13:08 Henson Shaving
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