Etymology

Polander

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Today it means: An inhabitant of Poland, a person native to Poland, or a person of Polish origin. Full definition →

English Poland ← Middle English lond ← Old English land
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The story

  1. Proto-Slavic*poľaninъ
  2. GermanPole
  3. EnglishPole
  4. Proto-Indo-European*lendʰ-
  5. Proto-Germanic*landą
  6. Proto-West Germanic*land
  7. Old Englishland
  8. Middle Englishlond
  9. Englishland
  10. EnglishPoland
  11. English todayPolander

From Poland + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.