Hey,
I was born in Poland, I also raised and… still live here. Poland in Poland we call: Polska.
The word “Polska” in other countries sounds and is written quite similar… it is impossible not to guess what the country is: Poland, Polen, Polonia, Puola, Pologne, Poloni, Polonya, Poland, Il-Polonja, Polonia, Poljska … and many more, more or less similar names.
It is funny, that very close to us, are two countries (one of them is our neighbor), with very common history with us, that calls my country completely different than we could expect:
@TorM … no, you don’t live in Germany… you live in Deutschland
By the way … do you know why your country is called: “Niemcy” in Poland?
The word “Niemcy” comes from the word “niemy” (mute).
Hundreds of years ago, the territories of today’s Poland were inhabited by dozens of Slavic tribes, whose languages were similar to each other. But, in the west of that territories, there lived tribes whose languages were so unlike ours that even when they said something to us, we did not understand them anyway … as if they were “mute”.
… so … Niemcy≈ niemy ≈ mute … the genesis of this name is amazing to me!!!
