etymology

etymology
The name " England " ( England ) is derived from the word Englaland in Old English , meaning " land of Angles " . [ 15 ] The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages . Angles tribe is derived from the Angeln peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area of ​​the Baltic Sea . [ 16 ] According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the first known use of the word " England " to refer to the southern part of the island of Great Britain occurs in 897 , and the modern spelling for this word was first used in 1538 .


The earliest mention of the word England in writing contained in the work entitled Germania Tacitus in the 1st century , the use of the word Anglii . [ 18 ] The etymology of the name itself is disputed by historians , it is said that the name of England is actually derived from the Angeln . [ 19 ] While the term used to describe the Saxons , who used to refer to the entire country and its population of unknown origin , but it is thought that this word is used for custom calling the Germanic people who settled in the island of Great Britain Angli as Saxones or English Saxons . [ 20 ] it should be noted also that in the Scottish Gaelic language ( other languages ​​are growing in Britain Island ) , Saxon term for this is " Sasunn " , it is estimated that this word is given by the Saxon tribes .

Alternative name for England is Albion . The word was originally used to refer to the entire island of Great Britain . The earliest record of the name appears in the works of Aristotle , Corpus Aristotelicum in the 4th century BC . [ 22 ] mentioned that : " Beyond the pillars of Hercules there is a sea that flows along the earth and in it there are two very large islands called Britannia ; consisting of Albion and Ierne " . [ 22 ] the word Albion ( Ἀλβίων ) or the possibility Albionum Island has two origins ; from the Latin word albus , meaning white , to refer to the white cliffs of Dover , which is the only part of the island of Britain visible from the European mainland , [ 23 ] or it could be the word is derived from the phrase in the manuscript Massaliote Periplus , namely " Albiones Island " . [ 24 ] the word Albion is currently used to refer to England in a more poetic capacity . [ 25 ] another novel name for England is Loegria , which is associated with the designation in Wales for the English language ( Lloegr ) , and its use was popularized in the legend of King Arthur .