Poland

Meanings

1. A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.
2. A number of places in the United States:
3. An unincorporated community in Cass Township, Clay County, Indiana.
4. A town in Androscoggin County, Maine.
5. A town in Chautauqua County, New York.
6. A village in Herkimer County, New York.
7. A village and township in Mahoning County, Ohio.
8. An unincorporated community in Eaton, Brown County, Wisconsin.
9. A village on Kiritimati, Kiribati, named after the home country of a plantation manager.
10. A surname.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-? Proto-Indo-European *pel-? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der. Proto-Slavic *poľe Proto-Slavic *-janъ Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Proto-Slavic *-janinъ Proto-Slavic *poľaninъder. German Polebor. English Pole Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land English Poland 1560s. From Pole + land, a phono-semantic matching of German Polen (“Poland”), from Old Polish Polanie (“Poles”, literally “field dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *poľane, plural of *poľaninъ (“field dweller”), from *poľe (“field”) + *-ěninъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).