> I have to admit that I haven't researched the origin of Polska (which
> is the Polish name for Poland), but that is a feminine adjectival
> form of the word for field, "pole".
>

Most of the books I have, suggest that Polska and Polak come from the
tribal name of the Polanie, one of the slavic tribes that inhabited the
area that was to become Poland.

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