French uses Irlande, Hollande and other country names ending in 'lande,' but Angleterre stands out. I've read that it may be because England was at one time a domain of French-Norman nobles and in a union with Northern France in the Middle Ages, but I can't find anything definitive.
(I'll post in another sub if this doesn't produce an answer, but I suspect somebody here might know a thing or two).
***edit -- I speak French; I understand what "Angleterre" and other country names literally mean in French. What I'm asking is why French speakers were content to just use "Islande" for Iceland, "Finlande" for Finland and "Irlande" for Ireland, but decided at some point in history that "Angleterre" was better than "Anglande" or "Englande."
It's all a question of what the French language started using, what slipped into common usage if you will. It doesn't have anything to do with Normandy or the Normand conquest of England.
Angleterre means "Terre des Angles", for some reason or another, the French traduction of England is what became the common way to refer to that piece of land. While Irlande, and Hollande were different. Irlande comes from the francization of Ireland from the English. In the case of Hollande, the French just adopted the Dutch way of referring to that piece of land. It should also be noted that Hollande is not the most common way to refer to that piece of land in French, it is fr more often referred to as "Pays-Bas", low countries. In fact, the only time in French history where "Hollande" referred to all of the Netherlands was during the Napoleonic era, and then only after Napoleon installed his sister as Queen. In English, "Holland" designated, in common usage, almost all of the Netherlands for the hundreds of years the Dutch Republic existed.
There's also the matter of Germanic and Romance languages to be considered. "Land" comes from proto-Germanic, which is why it passed into the usage of English, Dutch, or German. "Terre", however, comes from the latin terra and it passed into the usage of Italian and Spanish. Land and terra mean the same thing in the language family from which they come.
The French decided to directly translate England, while they did not directly translate other names, deciding to use the common local nomenclature, or invent their own.
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