The story
- Proto-Indo-European*pleth₂-?
- Proto-Indo-European*pel-?
- Proto-Indo-European*pleh₂-
- Proto-Slavic*poľe
- Proto-Slavic*poľaninъ
- GermanPole
- EnglishPole
- Proto-Indo-European*lendʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*landą
- Proto-West Germanic*land
- Old Englishland
- Middle Englishlond
- Englishland
- English todayPoland
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”).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*pleh₂- all →
fieldfloorpalmflagplanararchipelagoflakeFlaggveldpurdahaquaplaneplanularpolynya
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.