20 апр. 2021 г. · it is a latin / greek suffix used to form nouns ( in the case of countries coming to mean essentially “where [group of people] lives” - but ...

4 янв. 2020 г. · The suffix literally means "of God" or "belonging to God" or better yet "from God". I haven't found any evidence of such a practice.

25 окт. 2022 г. · The suffix '-ia' is used a lot to denote countries and states like Somalia, Tunisia, Tasmania etc.

17 мая 2022 г. · The suffix communicates to the audience that the place is a country or a region, not a city or a river. But I still didn't like Latin connotations.

16 дек. 2018 г. · From Latin, -ia translated as 'land of". It's pretty similar to countries that end in -land or -stan. Russia is "Land of the Rus", Australia is ...

15 июл. 2020 г. · It goes back to Greek or Roman, judging by the areas, and probably meant something along the lines of, "land," "of the land," "realm," etc.

26 февр. 2024 г. · In Greek, the suffix "-ia" is often used to create abstract nouns or names of places. For example: "Geographia" (Γεωγραφία) means geography. " ...

2 нояб. 2014 г. · It denotes an abstract noun of feminine gender in Latin and Greek. So basically, you can take anything and add this suffix (if it's a feminine ...

26 февр. 2024 г. · The suffix -ia means abnormal state just like abnormalistan. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/740238/all/_ia

2 мар. 2024 г. · -ia and -ya are also absolutely the same suffix, as in, they mean the same thing (apart from Kenya, where the -ya at the end is unrelated to ...