Country Name Etymologies of the Americas

Can you name the country name etymologies of the countries in the Americas? The language of origin and the definition from that language will be provided

A (?) means that the etymology is uncertain

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Language	Definition	Answer
Latin	Saint Lucy	St. Lucia
Spanish (?)	Wallace (?)	Belize
Spanish and Unknown	The Island of the Holy Trinity and possibly tobacco	Trinidad and Tobago
Italian	Little Venice	Venezuela
Spanish	Republic of Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic
English	Self descriptive, based on the fact that it is the unity of many different entities	United States of America
Spanish	Equator	Ecuador
Spanish	Depths	Honduras
Spanish	Land of Colombus	Colombia
Unknown	Surinen people	Suriname
Nahuatl	Forest or place of many trees	Guatemala
Quechua, Aymara, or Mapuche (?)	Cold, snow, depths, or where the land ends (?)	Chile
English and Spanish	St Christopher and Our Lady of the Snows	St. Kitts and Nevis
Guarani	Shellfish water or an unknown type of bird in the region and proceed from	Uruguay
Lucayan	Large middle upper island	Bahamas
Nahuatl (?)	Heartland of the Aztec (?)	Mexico
French	La Grenade	Grenada
Taino/Arawak	Land of wood and water	Jamaica

Language	Definition	Answer
Taino/Arawak	Mountainous land	Haiti
Spanish	Rich Coast	Costa Rica
Iroquoian	Village	Canada
Latin	Sunday island	Dominica
Unknown or Guarani	The waters of a local tribe or crowned river	Paraguay
Portugese	Red hot embers	Brazil
Italian	Silvery	Argentina
Spanish	Old and bearded	Antigua and Barbuda
Unknown indigenous language	Land of many waters	Guyana
Taino (?)	Abundant fertile land or great place	Cuba
Spanish	The savior	El Salvador
English and Spanish	St Vincent and the Spanish city Granada	St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Cueva or Caribe	Place of an abundance of fish or abundance of butterflies	Panama
New Latin	Land of Bolivar	Bolivia
Spanish	A merger of Nicarao and the word for water	Nicaragua
Portuguese	Bearded ones	Barbados
Unknown	River, or the name of a local chieftain	Peru