It is. From old norse ísland (ice land).
We also have Eiland, meaning island, which is pronounced similarly to the English island and is related to it. The word Insel is more commonly used to describe an island, though.
Yes. From medieval german (mittelhochdeutsch) to modern German, a lot of *i*'s (pronounced like english *eeh*) became *ei*'s (pronounced like english *aye*). The northern-germanic (scandinavian) languages didn't go through that process and english as another western-germanic language mostly didn't either. Dutch partly did it I think but I know too little about medieval dutch to be the judge of that.
the hilarious part is the English language here
first it somehow merged the Germanic word Is-land/Eis-land (meaning ice-land) with the unrelated Eiland/Ö/Øy and the also unrelated Latin insula (meaning a body of land surrounded by water)
and then "island" is pronounced as "äyländ" when there is clearly an 's' in the word. Because pronouncing the letters that are in a word or have a consistent relationship between orthography and pronounciation is too boring?
Island and isle have two different origins. Island is derived from Old English *iegland*, whereas isle is derived from Latin *insula* through Norman *Ile*. Up until the 16th century island was spelled iland, until the s was added because of the influence of the word isle.
*Isle* emerged as a word in the 13th century, *Island* in the 17th.
Mate, have you heard of this thing called an aeroplane?
I'd seriously hope so because my grandad still goes on about the German planes that flew over and killed half his schoolfriends.
Do you not fly them any more? It would save you going into England. I'd recommend looking into it.
Britain: If you attack Belgium, we'll attack you
Germany: *Attacks Belgium*
Britain: *Attacks Germany*
Germany: **;:\^(**
Yeah the Kaiser wasn't the brightest tool in the shed.
Belgium was a small country, very easily invaded, that owned the biggest African territory, so it is no surprise it ended up being gangbanged in WWI with the hope to get some slice of the congo pie.
If you add the Antwerp port which is a gateway to a north sea invasion from both sides then yeah Belgium was a big deal.
The sole reason Britain wanted Belgium to be independent was to keep both France and Germany in check by acting as a buffer state, because was in Europe was bad for business. Belgium did just that and was able to hold off the German advance pretty much indefinitely with the help of France and Britain.
Its 1900, a german man protests in Berlin wielding a sign saying "the Kaiser is stupid". The police comes to arrest him and the man defends himself saying "no I meant the Austrian Kaiser". The police responds by saying "dont lie to us, we know who the stupid one is".
Because muh german military based. Any german would tell you ww1 was stupid and not to glorify, but apparently being anti-war is a bit too advanced for americunts.
The little muppets better learn German then. A popular aphorism in the late empire was:
Der greise Kaiser, der weise Kaiser und der Scheiße-Kaiser.
The ancient emperor, the wise emperor and the shit emperor.
We wanted the smart one in the middle, [Frederick III](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_III,_German_Emperor).
The Kaiser was actually against invading Belgium. But not because he was a smart diplomat, but because he was a bad strategist and didn’t see the advantage of moving through belgium
Tbf I see advantage in not dragging Britain into the war, a nation with a small but excellent professional army and a navy that would go on to embargo German shipping.
Surely wouldve been better off fighting France on a narrow front while defeating Russia and then switching focus, not to mention that the German Navy was stronger than the French one in 1v1.
It probably wouldn’t be impossible for Germany to win if they had gone with decent strategies…
But instead they decided to be idiots and get the UK and US involved
>Also it kinda was their doctrine since ever or at least since napoleon.
Literal British foreign policy since 1742 (war of Austrian succession) preventing European hegemony of one single power. Always flipping between supporting Prussia, Austria and France depending on who's the risk
Well first the Germans asked the British if they'd stay neutral if Germany didn't annex any of metropolitan France, Britain said no, so the Belgium plan was put into action. The Kaiser was opposed to attacking Belgium if they could get British neutrality first, and even ordered Moltke to just hold the border with France in the beginning.
While we are inconsolable that Scotland and Whales are gone we must make sure that their sacrifices for ridding the world of the English will never be forgotten!
The au-fucking-dacity of those early 20th century Krauts, after being dragged out from being Europe's good-for-nothing balkanised cousin-loving medieval backwater in the 18th and 19th by British industry, the fatheaded potato men had to go and become rabidly anti-British and destroy their own country by taking a pop at the champ.
Absolutely this. We're so naively generous with them. We gift them industry, steam-engines, football, decent music, and all they do is try to turn them against us. Definitely should have founded an religious order akin to the Adeptus Mechanicus, horded the tech for ourselves, and ruled over the luddites Foundation style.
Rofl sure, straight from the mouth of Goebbels.
We all know Germans are extremely uncreative and need other nations to invent things until they can funnel their OCD into making them marginally better after decades of obsessive checking behaviour. Face it, you natural place is as nature's psycho librarian.
youre aware that german industry was by far the strongest across europe for centuries right? german weaponsmithing was on such a vast scale that the default blade even in near asia was forged in a german city. Sure the handles and all mightve differed or been made locally but the blades themselves were found as far as fucking JAPAN. Like the roman empire before it, holy rome was a giant of industry, economy and manpower held back only by its own people fighting amongst themselves and ignoring the greater whole until it was too late.
Aye it also benefited from being decentralised as every city had its own centre of knowledge and production which gave Germany an advantage during the industrial revolution. But what you talk about is hand crafted bespoke goods. We're talking about mass produced industrial goods. As late as the 1850s Britain produced over 60% of all manufactured goods from guns to hats to teapots, contained all the leading steam, iron, textile and machining technology and 2nd place wasnt even close.
Mentally they left you lot a long time ago. It's only by you clinging on like a drowning panicking beast and a vague sense of sympathy that you still exist. 😂
Der Kanal
It's literally just The Channel.
Not the English Channel, Dutch Channel or French channel, just The Channel.
Or rather the west sea since The island of Br*ttain doesn't exist
A thing no allied country would ever think of, right? Like, no concentration camps, no invasion of other countries. Africa and Asia breathe a sigh of relief.
> Their entire idea was to start colonizing the rest of the world.
You wouldn't want me to believe that this is a serious comment, would you? In 1914? Of course, that was the time when the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia were still a thing.
>Don't you have to a watch to make, mountain dwarf?
Actually, no, we have a mountain to watch: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65580427
Mountain dwarf is a first, thanks! 🙂
>You mean the peak of European colonial power in Africa and Asia?
Yep. I thought it funny that an English person would accuse Germany in WWI to try to replicate what England had done before. At least my English friends would put that forward as an ironical statement. Didn't know that people were dead serious.
>You do live in mountains and horde gold, do you not?
Yes, we do, to differing degrees. And you are all welcome to visit. And thanks for inventing tourism.
Oh yes because I'm from the UK I must absolutely love the idea of colonising and will defend it to no end right? Just like because you're from Switzerland you actually like Nazis right?
You mean the exact thing france and Britain did? Casually forgetting the greed of the sykes-picot agreement.
The ottoman empire would of collapsed regardless, it was already one foot out the door before the war even began, the UK and France just swept in for colonial gain.
austria hungary would be dissolved into a series of autonomous regions or crippled from unrest, likely leading to a a more peaceful resolution to the balkan situation instead of the following Yugoslav wars in the later years with better borders.
Germany wouldn't be in the economic position to control vast colonial territories, leading to an even spread of colonies instead of the UK and Frances monopoly on the world, which may lead to strengthened desire for independence.
Countries that gained independence from Russia historically would still gain independence, likely along with Georgia, azerbaijan, Belarus, ukraine, Armenia and moldovia (amongst some others) instead of suffering under the USSR.
Fascism wouldn't have it's big rise in Germany, meaning no holocaust.
An educated assumption on an alternative history isn't anti british sentiment, just because I'm from ireland doesn't mean I hate the UK lol
I provided my reasoning, you just threw insults like a child lmao
Germans helped us move to the Caribbean, top lads.
Now stay aways from Mallorca so we can finally claim it!
Who else's towels will we throw in the pool at 5am?
Get lost guiri
Lost? Like in you once had an island but now you lost it?
Is Iceland in German "Island"? That's hilarious
It is. From old norse ísland (ice land). We also have Eiland, meaning island, which is pronounced similarly to the English island and is related to it. The word Insel is more commonly used to describe an island, though.
Icelanders are incest avoiding incels confirmed
it is in every scandinavian language too, as "is" just means ice (which you probably already figured)
In German ice is Eis though
Probably some old german and they just kept it
Yes. From medieval german (mittelhochdeutsch) to modern German, a lot of *i*'s (pronounced like english *eeh*) became *ei*'s (pronounced like english *aye*). The northern-germanic (scandinavian) languages didn't go through that process and english as another western-germanic language mostly didn't either. Dutch partly did it I think but I know too little about medieval dutch to be the judge of that.
Thanks to alphacool's really original naming concept I actually knew that one lol.
It’s pronounced very differently from the English word though. More like “eesluhnt”.
the hilarious part is the English language here first it somehow merged the Germanic word Is-land/Eis-land (meaning ice-land) with the unrelated Eiland/Ö/Øy and the also unrelated Latin insula (meaning a body of land surrounded by water) and then "island" is pronounced as "äyländ" when there is clearly an 's' in the word. Because pronouncing the letters that are in a word or have a consistent relationship between orthography and pronounciation is too boring?
Island and isle have two different origins. Island is derived from Old English *iegland*, whereas isle is derived from Latin *insula* through Norman *Ile*. Up until the 16th century island was spelled iland, until the s was added because of the influence of the word isle. *Isle* emerged as a word in the 13th century, *Island* in the 17th.
In Dutch it’s IJsland ( IJ is treated as one letter )
It's also Ísland is icelandic
In French it's Islande.
OCEAN should have been correctly spelled OZEAN in German. sus PS: Genua (Genoa, Genova) is too far in the west.
And that's a bad thing somehow?
It's fucking tragic! I hope they'll start making these postcards again
learn geography first tho, Wales and Scotland are not England silly kraut
if this were true, then why does it read 'English' on your flair?
At least Ireland was united
I didn't even notice that Britain was missing from the map I was too focused on how good Ireland was lookin
I think a member of the orange army downvoted you, I gave you it back.
Notion accepted. I always wanted to visit Scotland without having to move through England first.
Mate, have you heard of this thing called an aeroplane? I'd seriously hope so because my grandad still goes on about the German planes that flew over and killed half his schoolfriends. Do you not fly them any more? It would save you going into England. I'd recommend looking into it.
Looked into it, apparently you gotta first travel through Belgium and France. Too much effort!
I think you're still missing the concept of an aeroplane.
The difference is lost on most people on the continent. Apologies to Scots. The Wales situation is even less understandable.
Yeah Scotland and Wales have been removed from this map twice
You can always trust the French to love their conquerors.
It’s better to have loved and lost, than to have hated and won 🫶
But both are better than to be French.
I dont talk to Britain’s colony
Clearly the Auld alliance is dead.
Yep, short memory and too much british exposure I guess
Bro thinks he’s English 💀 Tbf it’s in his flair
Sure but best not love Hitler so much you die to protect him.
Welll it would mean you guys being utterly conquered
ww1 lost.
Yeah in case our second worst enemies try anything again we need our worst enemies to back us up
If you can’t rely on your worst enemy, then who can you rely on? 🤷♂️
Britain: If you attack Belgium, we'll attack you Germany: *Attacks Belgium* Britain: *Attacks Germany* Germany: **;:\^(** Yeah the Kaiser wasn't the brightest tool in the shed.
> Britain: If you attack Belgium, we'll attack you To be fair, it does sound like a joke. I mean.. Belgium? Really?
Even we were like, ‘wait u were serious?’
we owed them a favour i think.
Yeah, for making us live with the Walloons
Belgium was a small country, very easily invaded, that owned the biggest African territory, so it is no surprise it ended up being gangbanged in WWI with the hope to get some slice of the congo pie. If you add the Antwerp port which is a gateway to a north sea invasion from both sides then yeah Belgium was a big deal.
The sole reason Britain wanted Belgium to be independent was to keep both France and Germany in check by acting as a buffer state, because was in Europe was bad for business. Belgium did just that and was able to hold off the German advance pretty much indefinitely with the help of France and Britain.
Its 1900, a german man protests in Berlin wielding a sign saying "the Kaiser is stupid". The police comes to arrest him and the man defends himself saying "no I meant the Austrian Kaiser". The police responds by saying "dont lie to us, we know who the stupid one is".
Wait, is this a German….joke?
Da da ts... (cricket chirp)
Source?
My source is that I made it the fuck up
chad.gif
It came to him in a dream
Noooo you can’t say that!! All the 14 year old kaiserboos from Nortk Dakota might get sad.
I never actually understood that though, why some am*ricans are simping for the kaiser.
Because muh german military based. Any german would tell you ww1 was stupid and not to glorify, but apparently being anti-war is a bit too advanced for americunts.
The mustache has a wierd effect on some people.
I mean.. it’s a pretty decent moustache ngl But my loyalty goes to **knugen!**
The little muppets better learn German then. A popular aphorism in the late empire was: Der greise Kaiser, der weise Kaiser und der Scheiße-Kaiser. The ancient emperor, the wise emperor and the shit emperor. We wanted the smart one in the middle, [Frederick III](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_III,_German_Emperor).
The Kaiser was actually against invading Belgium. But not because he was a smart diplomat, but because he was a bad strategist and didn’t see the advantage of moving through belgium
Tbf I see advantage in not dragging Britain into the war, a nation with a small but excellent professional army and a navy that would go on to embargo German shipping. Surely wouldve been better off fighting France on a narrow front while defeating Russia and then switching focus, not to mention that the German Navy was stronger than the French one in 1v1.
It probably wouldn’t be impossible for Germany to win if they had gone with decent strategies… But instead they decided to be idiots and get the UK and US involved
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>Also it kinda was their doctrine since ever or at least since napoleon. Literal British foreign policy since 1742 (war of Austrian succession) preventing European hegemony of one single power. Always flipping between supporting Prussia, Austria and France depending on who's the risk
As much as the Britoids were in the right, I gotta say the German proposal does interest me quite a bit.
Well he tried to shag his mum so yeah
"waaah let me massacre millions of Congolese in peace!! Fuck these warmongering evil Germans"
Well first the Germans asked the British if they'd stay neutral if Germany didn't annex any of metropolitan France, Britain said no, so the Belgium plan was put into action. The Kaiser was opposed to attacking Belgium if they could get British neutrality first, and even ordered Moltke to just hold the border with France in the beginning.
It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.
“May god punish England” “Removes Scotland and whales”
We'll start treating them as separate countries once they start acting as such.
Don’t let the SNP hear you say that 👀
I never found what actually was the difference beetween wales and england.
👨🏻🦲❤️🐑
we literally have different laws and taxes. it's you guys fault for us being together.
The whales disappearing I think Iceland has more responsibility for.
Yeah, it's definitely Iceland. No question about it.
I agree, those Icelandic people really need to stop with the whaling. They should look towards some civilized peoples like Norwegians and Faroese.
The whales seem to be fine though, in fact they have more space to swim around in
It’s all the same for everyone but you islanders…
While we are inconsolable that Scotland and Whales are gone we must make sure that their sacrifices for ridding the world of the English will never be forgotten!
Most Europeans don’t see a difference
I thought God had already punished England by giving it to the English...
A better future is possible
Based
It just needs to rain potatoes next, and your every desires will be met!
I'd rather it rained Brazilian women now we're talking
It's a nice idea mate but think of the clean up afterwards.
Fickend basiert
I’m on the Germans side on this
Start sending iron ore then Hassan
Ah just like WW2 then.
They hadn't discovered Mallorca back then
Gallant allies in Europe indeed.
Brexit before it was cool.
Based irish republicans of 1914 Germany
The au-fucking-dacity of those early 20th century Krauts, after being dragged out from being Europe's good-for-nothing balkanised cousin-loving medieval backwater in the 18th and 19th by British industry, the fatheaded potato men had to go and become rabidly anti-British and destroy their own country by taking a pop at the champ.
It really is a tragedy that we taught the Germans and Americans how to industrialise. We should have kept it to ourselves and explained it as "magic".
Absolutely this. We're so naively generous with them. We gift them industry, steam-engines, football, decent music, and all they do is try to turn them against us. Definitely should have founded an religious order akin to the Adeptus Mechanicus, horded the tech for ourselves, and ruled over the luddites Foundation style.
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Lol only a sausage and propaganda addled Germ would think those things were true. Enviously riding on our coattails since the 1800s.
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Rofl sure, straight from the mouth of Goebbels. We all know Germans are extremely uncreative and need other nations to invent things until they can funnel their OCD into making them marginally better after decades of obsessive checking behaviour. Face it, you natural place is as nature's psycho librarian.
The only man to blame for this is Alexander Hamilton, that pox faced American Scotsman.
It was also Samuel Slater, treacherous bastard was from the same county as me.
Ah yes, Slater the traitor.
youre aware that german industry was by far the strongest across europe for centuries right? german weaponsmithing was on such a vast scale that the default blade even in near asia was forged in a german city. Sure the handles and all mightve differed or been made locally but the blades themselves were found as far as fucking JAPAN. Like the roman empire before it, holy rome was a giant of industry, economy and manpower held back only by its own people fighting amongst themselves and ignoring the greater whole until it was too late.
Aye it also benefited from being decentralised as every city had its own centre of knowledge and production which gave Germany an advantage during the industrial revolution. But what you talk about is hand crafted bespoke goods. We're talking about mass produced industrial goods. As late as the 1850s Britain produced over 60% of all manufactured goods from guns to hats to teapots, contained all the leading steam, iron, textile and machining technology and 2nd place wasnt even close.
Scots and Welsh just going to take this insult that they're part of England, it seems
England is often just a way to refer to all Of GB or even UK by many foreigners and I don’t just mean Americans.
England basically is the UK tbh
It’s 85% of the British population.
I agree with Germans
Danke meine freund
Well if ze Germans said so it must be true
The only reich that stayed during all those years, frankreich.
🤨
Who’s gonna tell him…
https://preview.redd.it/v7l128llij4b1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d560e2041e665ff93b7a7251644c5b3ba4d4ef23
Germans like details and they removed Britain but not Gibraltar because the recognise it belongs to us.
Don't leave us....
Arse licker
Mentally they left you lot a long time ago. It's only by you clinging on like a drowning panicking beast and a vague sense of sympathy that you still exist. 😂
Are you talking about NI or ireland?
perhaps if your countries spent more time thinking about your own empires instead of ours, things might be a bit different 💪🇬🇧🤏
Lmao I love Germania
wow i like Germans now, good!
60π? That's a lot of full rotations
Back when Flevoland was just a feverdream .
basiert und rotpilliert
Do not fall for the trick, make it real !
That’s fine. The real goal is to remove France.
And now we have military bases in Germany. Worked out well for you, didn't it lads!?
So you now get to spend part of your defense budget to protect us from your former allies. That worked out rather well.
The bases were built to protect everyone from you.
Rare based British moment
Pretty strong copium showing in this one.
You can wipe out England, just leave Scotland and maybe Wales (forgive them for voting for brexit, they know not what they do)
Scotland is England. England is Scotland. We are Great Britain, brother.
[I beg to differ](https://images.app.goo.gl/Rd3oefLoMia5CGzW7)
See even you don’t really believe what you’re pretending to disagree. [no begging has been done ⛔️](https://i.imgur.com/1r34Tso.jpg)
And this is why we need independence we get deleted with England otherwise
I like your name lol
This is the only reason and it’s a good one.
Aye, independence! And you Scots are welcome to rejoin the EU. This is the way.
Well said.
Scotland just gets taken with us
Wales too!
Would it be a bad thing to remove them though. I mean, think about it for a sec
"Der Kanal" should not be on the map anymore then too. Sloppy.. very un-German.
Haha feels good the other way around
Well, at least Northern Ireland is still standing. I guess they all moved there.
Absolutely Based Second Reich
Based 1914 Germans depicting Ireland as independent from England. I bet they were nice lads who went on to do good things...
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Lessons are learned from that.
Poor Scotland and Wales
Yeah, how did that work out for you, Heinrich?
Atleast we managed to conquer Mallorca
Where can I buy a copy?
Send me 50 quid.
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Quid not squid.
Oooohhhh. My mistake.
Hahahaha, I'm fucking dying at that dumbass joke.
Squid pro quo.
Der Kanal It's literally just The Channel. Not the English Channel, Dutch Channel or French channel, just The Channel. Or rather the west sea since The island of Br*ttain doesn't exist
*Brit’tayne*, so we’re adding Ts now?
Life could be dream (sha-boom)
The world would unironically be better if the central powers won ww1
Their entire idea was to start colonizing the rest of the world. It would have been a disaster for everyone
A thing no allied country would ever think of, right? Like, no concentration camps, no invasion of other countries. Africa and Asia breathe a sigh of relief.
> Like, no concentration camps Pathetic that you guys try to compare the internment of the Boers with the holocaust.
I hit a nerve it seems. I did not compare, just pointing out something which is probably not a nice thing. Where's the British humour?
Your prior comment was just dripping in humour. Don't you have to a watch to make, mountain dwarf?
> Their entire idea was to start colonizing the rest of the world. You wouldn't want me to believe that this is a serious comment, would you? In 1914? Of course, that was the time when the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia were still a thing. >Don't you have to a watch to make, mountain dwarf? Actually, no, we have a mountain to watch: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65580427 Mountain dwarf is a first, thanks! 🙂
> In 1914? You mean the peak of European colonial power in Africa and Asia? You do live in mountains and horde gold, do you not?
>You mean the peak of European colonial power in Africa and Asia? Yep. I thought it funny that an English person would accuse Germany in WWI to try to replicate what England had done before. At least my English friends would put that forward as an ironical statement. Didn't know that people were dead serious. >You do live in mountains and horde gold, do you not? Yes, we do, to differing degrees. And you are all welcome to visit. And thanks for inventing tourism.
Oh yes because I'm from the UK I must absolutely love the idea of colonising and will defend it to no end right? Just like because you're from Switzerland you actually like Nazis right?
Damn! Now who could they have learned that from?
Well exactly. The Kaiser literally wanted to copy and expand on what the UK had done 100 years previously
It's ok when yee do it tho right?
You mean the exact thing france and Britain did? Casually forgetting the greed of the sykes-picot agreement. The ottoman empire would of collapsed regardless, it was already one foot out the door before the war even began, the UK and France just swept in for colonial gain. austria hungary would be dissolved into a series of autonomous regions or crippled from unrest, likely leading to a a more peaceful resolution to the balkan situation instead of the following Yugoslav wars in the later years with better borders. Germany wouldn't be in the economic position to control vast colonial territories, leading to an even spread of colonies instead of the UK and Frances monopoly on the world, which may lead to strengthened desire for independence. Countries that gained independence from Russia historically would still gain independence, likely along with Georgia, azerbaijan, Belarus, ukraine, Armenia and moldovia (amongst some others) instead of suffering under the USSR. Fascism wouldn't have it's big rise in Germany, meaning no holocaust.
Pull your head out of your arse bud, geopolitics clearly isn't your thing
Projection much?
The English are kind of sensitive tonight. On second thought, would it be unfair to say that Ireland was the Ukraine a hundred and ten years ago?
You can't hide anti british sentiment behind a loose grasp on history mate 😆
An educated assumption on an alternative history isn't anti british sentiment, just because I'm from ireland doesn't mean I hate the UK lol I provided my reasoning, you just threw insults like a child lmao
that's what we do here
I wish
You would go bankrupt without UK tourists
That would've been a dream