Sobanukirwa Mu kiganiro UBUCUKUMBUZI Inkomoko y'izina 'Canada'
“Muri iki gihe bisa n’aho bidashoboka gutekereza ko iki gihugu kitagize irindi zina uretse Canada. Icyakora, hari n’ibindi bitekerezo n’ibindi bikorwa by’ingenzi byatumye izina ry’igihugu cyacu ritangazwa nk’izina ry’igihugu mu 1867. ” Umwanditsi wa canada.ca
Izina “Canada” rishobora kuba rikomoka ku ijambo rya Huron na Iroquois KANATA, risobanura “umudugudu” cyangwa “umujyi.” Mu mwaka wa 1535, ubwo abasore babiri b’Abasangwabutaka beretse umushakashatsi Jacques Cartier inzira yerekeza i Kanata, mu by’ukuri bavugaga umudugudu wa Stadacona, umujyi wa Quebec. Kubera kubura irindi zina, Cartier yahise abivuga uko bitari neza ati “Canada” zbz zrhzbztije, atari uwo mudugudu gusa, ahubwo n’ubutaka bwose bugenzurwa n’umuyobozi wayo Donnacona.
Iryo zina ryahise rishyirwa mu gace kagutse cyane; Mu by’ukuri, ku ikarita yo mu 1547, ubutaka bwose bwo mu majyaruguru y’umugezi wa St Lawrence bwitwa “Canada.” Cartier kandi yise umugezi wa Mutagatifu Lawrence “Umugezi wa Canada,” izina ryakoreshejwe kugeza mu ntangiriro z’ikinyejana cya 17.
Mu mwaka wa 1616, nubwo akarere kose kazwi nka New France, akarere gafite umupaka n’umugezi munini wa Canada ndetse n’ikigobe cya St. Lawrence cyari gikomeje kwitwa Canada.
Abashakashatsi n’abacuruzi b’ibyatsi bahise bajya mu burengerazuba no mu majyepfo, kandi ubutaka buzwi nka “Canada” bwiyongereye. Mu ntangiriro z’ikinyejana cya 18, iri zina ryerekeza ku bihugu byose by’Abafaransa ubu bigize uburengerazuba bwo hagati bwa Amerika no kugera mu majyepfo, muri Louisiana.
Izina “Canada” ryakoreshejwe bwa mbere mu 1791, ubwo intara ya Quebec yagabanyijwemo ibice bibiri byakolonijwe: Upper Canada na Lower Canada. 1841: Ibihugu byombi bya Canada byongeye guhurira hamwe nk’intara ya Canada.
Kwita izina ry’igihugu
Mbere y’ishyirahamwe, amazina menshi yatanzwe mu gice cyo hejuru cya Amerika y’Amajyaruguru, harimo: Albertsland, Albionora, Borealia, Britannia, Cabotia, Colonia, Efisga, Hochelaga, Norland, Superior, Transatlantia, Tuponia na Victorialand.
Thomas D’Arcy McGee yashyize ibintu mu bitekerezo ubwo yavugaga ku itariki ya 9 Gashyantare 1865:
Yagize ati “Ntabwo nigeze mbona ibitekerezo bitari munsi ya 10 mu kinyamakuru. Mu bandi, Tuponia na Hochelaga biteguye gushyiraho igihugu gishya. Ndasaba abanyamuryango b’icyubahiro b’iyi nteko uyu munsi kumbwira uko bazumva niba bakanguka mu gitondo kimwe kandi mu buryo butunguranye biyita Abanya-Canada, ahubwo ni Aba-Tuponians cyangwa Hochelagais.”
Ku bw’amahirwe, ubwenge n’ibitekerezo bya McGee, ndetse n’ubwenge bwe busanzwe, biratsinda. Ku itariki ya 1 Nyakanga 1867, “Intara za Canada, Nova Scotia na New Brunswick” zabaye “umuryango umwe witwa Canada.”
Ibindi wamenya ku mazina yari yatanzwe
Izina ryari ryatanzwe mu yandi Efisga ni ihuzwaNyandiko z’inyuguti za mbere z’Ubwongereza, Ubufaransa, Ireland, Scotland, Ubudage na “Aboriginal Lands.” Aribyo mu rurimi rw’igifaransa England, France, Ireland, Scotland, Germany et « Aboriginal lands
Nanone izina Tuponia ryari riri muyariyatanzwe ni impine zitwa mu gifaransa Acrostiche yashyizweho n’amazina y’intara zari ziyunze ubumwe za Amerika y’icyo gihe. Acrostiche ni urutonde rw’amagambo, intangiriro ya buri murongo igizwe irema izina cyangwa interuro.
