Lietuva

Etymology
From the same stem as (q.v.):, from which also , ) (q.v.). First mentioned in Annals of Quedlinburg as (, from an earlier , apparently from  with a suffix (perhaps ). Cognates include 🇨🇬. More information at Name of Lithuania.

Etymology
From an earlier, possibly from an earlier or  with the suffix , denoting a region (see , ).

Further etymology uncertain and debated, with several proposed etymologies:


 * Most commonly, believed to have originated from the rivulet Lietauka from . Its etymology is unclear, but the root liet- likely comes from, ultimately from the  , and is cognate with , . It is an 11-kilometer-long rivulet in central Lithuania. According to Kazimieras Kuzavinis, this rivulet may have given its name to the surrounding territory, which includes nearby Kernavė, a medieval capital of Lithuania, and gradually expanded to become a name for the medieval Lithuanian state.
 * According to Jan Otrębski, from an old name of the Neman river,, attested in , from.
 * According to Simas Karaliūnas, from, from , ultimately from the.
 * According to Artūras Dubonis, from leitis (“member of a social group in service of the monarch in Medieval Lithuania”).

Popular etymologies connect it with.

Proper noun

 * 1) Lithuania

Proper noun

 * 1)  Lithuania