Why Do So Many Countries Have The SAME SUFFIXES?

Get 100 FREE blades with your purchase of an incredible razor at http://hensonshaving.com/generalknowledge Thank you to them for making this video possible. ▶ Support me on Patreon & get exclusive / ahead of time content! https://www.patreon.com/generalknowledge ▶ 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 ▶ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GKonYoutube ▶ Join the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/f4neAVWZfF ▶ Business Contact: [email protected] ▶ Thanks for watching, remember to subscribe to catch future videos!