Los Angeles was founded by the Angles as well. "Los" means "Let's go" in case you didn't know.

You mentioned one of my two favorites, The Netherlands. The other favorite, while it's politically incorrect to call it this now, is The Ukraine. Ukraine, in its language family, connotes "the hinter land," while The Netherlands is "the lowlands." Each is, in its own way, belittling.

Patently untrue, Los Angeles just means "the angels" in Spanish.

@@Esteareal You are a truly patent girl!

Is the word "Alp" connected to the word "Alba"?

Somehow I'm disproportionately amused by the notion of someone Belgian shouting "dude"...😁

Writing a song need some rhymes. Walloon, balloon,maroon, Quadroon, buffoon Macaroon.. Help me out guys, I have limited capacity

@@stevetournay6103 90% of my media consumption is in English. All our media is/was subtitled not dubbed, so my use of dude is not that surprising. 😉

as a swiss, i was sad he didn't mention that francophone swiss people are literally called welsch lol

@@stevetournay6103 It has been rumored that there is a healthy burgeoning Belgian North Sea Surf Scene. Cowabunga!

Brilliant

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Doesn't get more Billy than that! hahaha

And it's true. Scoti was the latin word romans called an Irish tribe that settled in Scotland.

Some Scots later found an even colder and wetter place and moved to the southern part of NZ. Dunedin is the Gaelic name for Edinburgh.

And one that wasn't mentioned - Cumbria.

There's also a Cornouaille in Brittany, France, which looks suspiciously similar.

@@svenbartram2695 Brittany is Celtic and once, Brittany and Cornwall were very closely interlinked. Their languages are proof of that. they are Bretagne and Britain is grande Bretagne

@@ianw7898 The Cumbrian Celtic has the closest link to Welsh but Cumbrian doesn't exist anymore

@@svenbartram2695 this is because Brittany was established by Britons from the South West at around the same time the Anglo-Saxons were arriving in Eastern Britain. The Britons were moving to secure the Tin route into the mediterranean which was the basis for much of their wealth in the region, they also had long-established links to the region and were culturally more similar to the inhabitants of Armorica (the region) then they were their fellow Britons. There is another region in Brittany called Domonee which comes from Dumnonia. In the case of Cornouaille though the early forms of this likely come from Cerniu, the Latin word for the region which eventually transmutes into Kernow in modern Cornish.

If you haven't already done so, you should study Anglo-Saxon, which became Old English. Being Vlaams, you will find it easy to understand than most native English speakers do. I always think of the Flemish and Frisians as the English who stayed home instead of migrating to Britain.

I'm English but my Great grandfather on my dads side was from Belgium. My nan said they spoke Flemish, and their surname was Wilrcyx.

What is an orientalist? Can you explain what that means?

Similarly, Verona used to be called "Welsch-Bern," presumably to distinguish it from the German-speaking Bern in Switzerland.

@ Buck... Deutsch actually means "of the people" Deutschland means people's land

@@TimeTheory2099 yes, this is the original and etymological meaning. But now it means simply "German"

@@TimeTheory2099Thought it would derive from Teutsch with the root *teut? Can You tell sth about this pls

@@notsheramThanks for the info that's quite interesting! Although the French term for Wallis is actually "Valais" ("Vaud" being another French speaking canton).

Welsch = Gaulois.

I mean.. If you're speaking German, you probably can anticipate the joke about the isles being a not very wide oblong and the Saxons, the original English speaking the old, but understandable by german natives to this day, middle-high German language in which "Eng" means narrow and "land" means country or land. So in Germany, "England" literally translated means "Narrow Country" or "Narrow Land". 😅

@@HG_Budde "eng" also means narrow in english. But the name "england" comes from "Engla land" = "the land of the Angles". The Angles come from the region of KIEL - FLENSBOURG.

Die Wallachei in Rumänien hat ihren Namen auch vom Wort welsch meine ich. Und Wallonien in belgien ??

@@hbecker123 ja genau

That's fascinating...😀

I fell awake wondering about this very subject just t'other morning. Serendipitously I stumbled on your cracking video. Look forward to watching more of 'em. Thank you 😁

A friend from Bretagne FR told me that Cornish people fled from the Anglosaxons over the channel. After all time there are now 2 different dialects of sam celtic language.

I'm from Wales. My Grandmother told us of the Sionni Onion Men, Breton onion sellers who came over on bikes to sell their wares. They could make themselves understood by speaking Breton to Welsh speakers. This would have been in the early to mid 20th century.

​@@JohnHardingIngvarThis included my grandmother.

Would you be kind enough to take your brothers back?

​@@infinitydreamzzI'm afraid they're far too many by now ... I'm sorry. 😔

@@friede6256 yeah that's true

Schleswig-Holstein meerumschlungen

Angeln connected to fishing?

If you knew anything about the British Empire you could not admire it. If you knew of the systematic brutality employed by British colonial forces to suppress unfortunate peoples of the colonies you could not admire it. If you knew of the detention camps, where torture, rape, and extrajudicial killings were rampant you could not admire it. If you knew of the British legal system's complicity in sanctioning state-sponsored violence in the colonies you could not admire it. If you knew of the dehumanising effects of torture and trauma experienced by peoples of the colonies and the moral dissonance of British officials tasked with implementing these oppressive policies you could not admire it. If you knew how British mercantilist policies prioritised the export of raw materials from colonies to fuel industrialisation in Britain, leading to deindustrialisation, impoverishment, and dependency in the colonies' economies you could not admire it. If you knew that British benevolence and civilizing mission in the colonies is pure myth you could not admire it. If you knew that popular narratives that portray British colonialism as a force for modernisation and progress are just whitewash for the atrocities, human rights abuses, and exploitation perpetrated by the British Empire, you could not admire it. Noone can admire what is shameful.

@@kevinnolan1339 I respect your point of view. God bless you.

@@kevinnolan1339 It seems you've never known, or spoken to, anyone who lived under British rule in any of the former colonies.

​​@@kevinnolan1339The British Empire was awesome and everywhere it touched is better for it. Mald harder.

​@@kevinnolan1339I'm going to assume you're Irish because of your name? I'm English but I agree, nothing to admire about the British empire by modern standards. We cannot change the past or choose where we are born, but there has been little to no recognition of the atrocities carried out in the name of the empire by our governments past and present and our monarchy. This is shameful when countries like Germany teach their history warts and all and do not try to put a positive spin on it.

Same here.

@@mquietsch6736 Yep, me too 👍

Same word in Norwegain: Kaudervelsk - meaning meaningless babble.

In fact, when the Romans expanded into the barbarian lands, they found populations characterized by unthinkable cultures, languages equipped with complex vocabularies that could perfectly describe the hundred different ways of building a hut. But why be surprised, if the same German spoken by the high-ranking German officers who discuss the umpteenth aggression against Russia (probably the German national sport), does not seem to be properly courtly, but, rather, a real Kauderwelsch, as when the employee of the Air Operations Center, Florstedt, declares that "im Grunde genommen ist es doable (!!!), und wie bringt man den Ukrainern die TTPs bei, um das Ding zu schießen? (!!!)".

And in Dutch: Koeterwaals. Same meaning

Many (if not all fo them) of Slavic languages call Germans unintelligible speakers or the mute ones. (Nemec-Nemci)

Kauderwelsch Word Salad Perfect

So basically you are saying that Irish are not Gál-Gaelic-Gaul?

Donegal was invaded by the Vikings and they're believed to have established a settlement at the end of Donegal Bay, possibly on the site of where Donegal Castle is today - that could explain the origin of the name - the Vikings being the 'foreigner' in this instance.

@@Pfth The Nordic people didn't call themselves Gál-Gaelic-Gaul so wouldn't name a village Don-Dom Gál either a home of Gál-Gaelic-Gaul. If this what Irish belief is for the word Gál-Gaelic-Gaul then Irish are not Gál-Gaelic-Gaul folk.

@@hondacbrificationMaybe Dún na nGall was the name the Irish used to describe the place and it stuck. I agree that the Vikings wouldn't have called it that. How do you define Gál-Gaelic-Gaul folk? Only asking as I genuinely don't know. I know that Irish ancestry, like all ancestries, is very complex - contains Gaelic as well as Scandinavian, French, English, Welsh and Scottish elements - but no one alive today can reasonably claim to be "pure Gael" - and even the Gaels would have had some pre-Gaelic DNA in their genetic makeup. At least, this is as far as I can make out.

@@Pfth Gál-Gál-Gaelic-Gaul moved between Portugal,BenGal and Mongolia and have connected Iberian Peninsula with Caucasian Iberian Kingdom and Siberia throughout the times like other regions which is why R1B and R1A haplogroups are so worldwide spread. This why Irish-Scottish genetics appears amongst native Afghan Pashtun population just as Iran,Middle East ...and entire Scythian lands for Gál-Gaelic-Gaul where a established tribal alliance in bronze age that had they global influence. This why some native Irish that can trace they origins in Ireland for many centuries have been scoring a more central Uralic genetic connection since arguably they had a connection or derived from a Udmurts whose known feature is that they all Ginger and they claim that every person that have Ginger hair in modern Russia are of Udmurt origins. From my Hungarian-Macar-Scythian point of view by looking at my own archeo-genetic data and general culture that is our and have no connection to Mediterranean people I have a different view on the topic. Gál is a common Hungarian surname that is associated to be the same as Gaul-Gael which have connection many other Hungarian-Macar-Scythian surname like Gálvölgyi whicb means Valley of Gál and its a surname that indicates that Árpádian basin known as Carpathian basin was known as Valley of Gál-Gaelic-Gaul to Hungarians. This why when we look up Scythians archeo-genetic data the Western Scythians are a Ugro-Finnic alliance meaning Hungarian-Finnish from which Hungarian part is Gál-Gaelic-Gaul while Eastern Scythians appears to be more Turkic. This explains many things like why Hungarian pig breed Mangalica is called as such since Hungarian called themselves ManGál or Gálic people and it's from ManGál that the word Mongol have derived from. As to what what Gál means from a Hungarian part it's the root word for Galamb meaning Dove 🕊 which appears in more English form in Moldavia but more importantly it's a animal associated with so called Turan-Turul bird from which Hungarian-Macar-Scythian traced they origins which can be found in Etruscan Turan related sources just as Mongolian to this very day. The Turan-Turul bird in some traditions is more a hybrid animal depicted as a Griffin or so called Phonics even some sources. Hence arguably we Gál-Gaelic-Gaul folk where a group of people that had a Mother Goddess as part of they cultural-religious centre hence the role of male and female where different compared to other more male centred societies where females didn't play a significant role in society. This why arguably in modern English language Gal is also a word used for female since today we have a more Phalic Mediterranean culture that dominates the continent which is not native in this land and whose narrative are inserted compared to more native Mother Nature centric culture that was native in the land.

This guy knows how to present dry info in a passionate way. An excellent teacher. An example to all KZfaqrs.

Isn’t he great? Imagine how many more people would like history and linguistics if they had - teacher like him, who makes it interesting without being a fuddy-duddy.

Everyone knows the Earth is only 6000 years old and the Internet started in 2010…LOL.

You really should check your numbers. My figures show it as 6,376 years old. It would have taken time for the fossils to take on a decent patina. It could even be as old as 6, 379 years old. @@doogleticker5183

@@doogleticker5183 ? what

"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls. "On the basis of a Book, every letter which has become law, he created a spiritual nationality which blend together peoples of every tongue and race. He has left the indelible characteristic of this Muslim nationality the hatred of false gods and the passion for the One and Immaterial God. This avenging patriotism against the profanation of Heaven formed the virtue of the followers of Muhammad; the conquest of one-third the earth to the dogma was his miracle; or rather it was not the miracle of man but that of reason. "The idea of the unity of God, proclaimed amidst the exhaustion of the fabulous theogonies, was in itself such a miracle that upon it's utterance from his lips it destroyed all the ancient temples of idols and set on fire one-third of the world. His life, his meditations, his heroic revelings against the superstitions of his country, and his boldness in defying the furies of idolatry, his firmness in enduring them for fifteen years in Mecca, his acceptance of the role of public scorn and almost of being a victim of his fellow countrymen... This dogma was twofold the unity of God and the immateriality of God: the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with words. "Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Conqueror of Ideas, Restorer of Rational beliefs.... The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?" Tribute by a French NON-Muslim poet, statesman, historian: Alphonse de LaMartaine in 'Historie de la Turquie,' Paris, 1854.

@@nononsensegamesI was born and raised in Paris France but Mom is half Kentish half Welsh. Still have relatives in the UK, an old aunt and many cousins 😀

@@nononsensegamesWhat I'm saying is with this video I understood why Saxon country (Kent was part of it) or the history of Wales being invaded, and France with Brittany being part of the influence, I have quite a mixed heritage. I'm not making a point, what a weird idea. Are you American?

@@nononsensegamesYou seem very confused. I said a Welsh GRANDPA and a Kentish GRANDMA many times, and as the video shows, the Saxon settlements included Kent. Kent is now part of England of course (my family is from Tenterden). Nothing to do with being part of Wales or France. Perhaps you should watch it again and stop arguing where there's no argument to be made

"I'm a Frenchman with a Welsh grandpa and a Kentish grandma." Wow, how do you feel about Welsh and Kentish Ales? imho they are the two best regions.

That’s very interesting. Windish is part of Carniola in todays Slovenia (east of Italy, south of Austria). The Germans referred to Windes as slaves.

Yes, but much later. Wenden was a Germanic tribe in the East as we know called the Vandal people as Wenden from the West, but when Salvic settlers moved westwards the West Germanic speakers simply used that term still, so that in the High Middle Ages the term got reused to mean Slav. And yes, also Windischgrätz in Czechia.

Interesting that the barbarians called the foreigners “foreigners”, bc for the Romans, “barbarian” also meant “foreigner”, “outsider”

@@cz2301 what? The so called Barbarians aren't Foreigners for themselves. 🤦🏼

That's what us English call England during football and rugby matches....😊

Princess diana English armenian

So now, the question ⁉️, why Brexit ?! They want to denounce & repudiate their European connections & origins ? Maybe they don't like their history ? 😮 They're European no ?🤔

Thank for this. I read it meant "lost lands" but couldn't find another decent source for it.

My only source is a lecturer telling me over a pint mind! There is a fair bit of Latin in Welsh, where it doesn't appear in English ("Pont", "Ffenestr", "Eglwys" etc), most likely loaned from the Romans I imagine. I wonder if the Anglo-Saxons picked up on that too@@RobWords

Wow, that's interesting!

​@@danieljones4754Also Celtic languages are related closest to the Roman languages. Maybe that also plays a role.

​@@danieljones4754there were also a few early borrowings into Old English from Latin either before or after the invasion of Britain. For example 'butter' comes from Latin 'butrum', etc.

I plan to wait a day or two then come back with pen and paper in hand. 😊 --Æ.

Yup, Low German (called so because of altitude, not related to class) is the oldest German there is, with no vowel and consonant shifts (unlike High German spoken in Austria, southern Germany and Switzerland) and is thus closest to English. At some point, all the dialects between German, Dutch and English were on a Dialektkontinuum, but over the centuries, that broke apart.

@@Schiffsfahrer Dialektkontinuum sounds like something you'd hear in Star Trek. LOL, that's great. I love languages.

@@Schiffsfahrer I think the dialect continuum over the netherlands and germany is still there, because to me as a Dutch person, I can understand low german so much more than high german. To me low german looks like dutch with some german sprinkled in. Then again dutch also did not undergo the sound shifts that high german did.

Great metaphor

Let's hear it for the puffins!

Sussex But what is middle Saxony I’m slow lol

@@YeshuaKingMessiah Middlesex

@@sharonprice42 ah! But ofc!

Yeap, you are a German

​@@infinitydreamzzor Danish..

When I hear Anglia I think about a car.

@@okaro6595 And the Whopping Willow.

I took Medieval Lit during my final semester as an English major. Learning about the evolution of the language and hearing how English originally sounded, pre Chaucer and Shakespeare, was one of those moments from lectures that really stuck with me. We had to memorize Cædmon's hymn and I still know it 8 years later. It's my "party trick," as well as being a fun way to engage my students. Everyone always says it sounds like Norwegian or Elvish 😁

same word in german, except we don't roll the "r" in Irland, even in the south where we do roll our r at the beginning of words.

In pre-christian culture Iriy meads Paradise. Ireland is a Paradise land.

Or with «skarre r»=french r, wich is used in the west ad the south of Norway along the coast

Hmmm. If you read "England" in Norwegian it actually means "Land of "Land of field/meadow" .... which could be brought to Engkand by Vikings ...

Thanks a lot.But English is a difficult language.Learning English is a hard process that a lot of people know this reality.

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@@liamloxley1222 Ah. Thank you. I have a strong Kiwi accent and the difference between those two sounds, for me, is very minor. I appreciate your help. Cheers!!!

rob really thoguht he did something there. this will forever be ENGraved in his memories of embarrassing moments.

I say en-(grave) not ing-(rave) For engrave and engage But I say ing for England I’m American

Angler fisherman

You moved to little britain,I actually feel sorry for you

When I was little, we learned that Holland was Holland; the Netherlands (low countries) were Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg together...

@@roseguber3240 The Dutch themself can add to the confusion though by things like "Hup Holland" at football matches and so on!

Netherland being Holland was becuz the Dutch wanted their country called that instead of Holland That’s what I learned in USA (born in 65)

Eng translates to "closely" in German. I read somewhere that it's a nice coincidence that the Angles naming it "land of the Angles" also means "close land" as in land close to their original home.

@@dmc6262 - nice, thats another angle to their origin story. Though i think 'nah' might be a more appropriate for location. eng for description of the actual(narrow) land. eng could also used describe relationships between people.

@@adroitspartan7907 You could be right. It's nice to speculate.

Because these DNA tests are not as good as advertised.

@@hendric-juliuslange5446 An assessment on your part since you don't know where I got tested. What would be your suggestion?

@@IncaMcCarter all DNA tests are flawed. I wouldn't suggest any of those. We know today's spreading of all the DNA markers, but not the spread from centuries ago. Everything is just an assumption. Having a certain marker in Scandinavia today doesn't mean it existed in the Vikings. Sure there are some that are a given, but enough aren't, making this way to speculative.

It explains the Albion bit, but not "la perfide". It comes from one of the many 18th Century wars - War of Spanish Succession, War of Austrian Succession, Seven Years War??? - one of them anyway, but I can't remember which one offhand and I'm too lazy to look it up. England was being perfidious once more - not for the first time and, sans aucune doute, not for the last time either!!

Perfidious Albion

Skultorp is in Sweden for heavens sake! It had 3875 inhabitants in 2020. The dead might be in majority there.

So what brings you over here, little girl?😋😛😋

It also meant "meadow" in the old 'Dutch' tongue, so either creepy or full of meadows, I leave the choice in the readers hands ;)

Heel eng land, dat.

But then "engel" means "angel," so "Engeland" could be "Land of the Angels" and "Engels" (the Dutch word for English) could be "Angelish" or "Language of the Angels" 😜 Obviously, I'm joking, but I feel it important to explicitly state that so nobody comes after me, mistaking my joke for a serious statement

😂😂😂😂😂

and Penguin is Welsh, Pen Gwyn. White Head.

Penguin does indeed derive from the Welsh _Pen gwyn_ (White head), It comes from the voyage of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe 1577 - 1580 . On board his ship there were Welsh speakers in the crew; the bird in question that had never been seen before actually wasn't the Penguin but another flightless bird - the ( sadly now extinct) *Great Auk* The great Auk - a flightless bird,had a predominantly black plumage, except for its belly - and a splash of *white on its head* - the Welsh speakers called it the Pengwyn (Penguin) Literally,White head. When later, another flightless bird ( The Penguin )was observed that was of a similar stature to the great Auk, it was given the generic term 'Penguin' ( even though ironically ,not one type of penguin has a 'white head' !) 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

On the other hand, Cornish was still widely spoken in the of West of Cornwall in the 1500s, therefore, the crew would have likely been comprised of a number of Cornish speakers. Indeed, Drake was born just over the boarder in Tavistock and from his base in Plymouth he was probably familiar with the seafaring abilities of the Cornish. In other words the sailors on his ship were more likely to have been Cornish than Welsh given the word Pen gwyn and Penn gwynn for Penguin are identical in both languages.

and that is "Ping-goo-een" in German: Pinguin.

Why is nobody saying “engorge”?