Where does “Kyrgyzstan” come from?
Kyrgyzstan (English) comes from Kyrgyz Кыргызстан, from Kyrgyz -стан, from Persian ـِسْتَانْ, from Old Persian 𐎿𐎫𐎠𐎴, from Proto-Iranian stā́nam, from Proto-Indo-Iranian stʰáHnam, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.
Ancestry of “Kyrgyzstan”, step by step