Thread:Micro Oxonic/@comment-32606476-20181007135601/@comment-32606476-20181007143110

Here it is: The name of Varaska derives from a quote-on-quote corruption Vara, which comes from the capital city of the country itself, Varna. Varna; first mentioned by a Byzantine monk and chronicler named Saint Theophanes the Confessor; then comes from the Swedish (o/w. Varangian) word värn, meaning shield or defense. Värn can even be older than it seems; probably coming from the Proto-Indo-European *u̯er-, meaning to flow, wet, water, or river (cf. Varuna, Vedic god of water). Another candidate of the origin of the word värn is from the Proto-Slavic root varn, meaning black, or from Iranian bar (o/w. var), meaning camp, or fortress.

The suffix of the country, ska, comes from the Varaskan word of ska, meaning land. It could be a corruption of zemlya (o/w. zemya; ie. zemlya -> skemla -> skela -> ska), also meaning land (o/w. country, region, etc.) in multiple Slavic languages.