Hungary
/ΛhΚΕ.Ι‘Ι.ri/noun
A country in Central Europe.
Did you know?The English name Hungary ultimately comes through medieval Latin Hungaria from a name applied by outsiders to the Magyar people, and it was long associated in Europe with the steppe confederation known as the Huns, even though modern scholarship does not derive Hungarians from the Huns.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Turkic / Early Medieval
Turkic
On-Ogur
β"Ten tribes" or "ten arrows"; a steppe confederation name later linked to the ethnonymβ
Early Medieval
Latin
Ungri / Hungari
βA Latinized name for the people of the Hungarian plain, influenced by association with the Onogur confederation and later the Hunsβ
Old French
Old French
Hongrie
βThe land of the Hungariansβ
Middle English
English
Hungarie
βThe country of the Hungariansβ
Modern English
English
Hungary
βA country in Central Europeβ