The etymology of ""România"" didn't follow the Romanian pattern of word formation for country names, which usually adds the suffix "-ia" to the ethnonym by keeping its accent, like in ""grec" → "Grecia", "Bulgar" → "Bulgaria", "rus → "Rusia"", etc. Since it is a self-designation, the word ""România"" has an older history, coming from ""românie"" which in turn resulted as a derivation of the word ""român"" by adding the suffix "-ie" with an accented last syllable, like in """moș → moșie", "domn" → "domnie"" or ""boier" → "boierie"" (lord → lordship). Initially, ""românie"" may indeed have meant ""Romanianship"" (just like ""rumânie"" meant ""serfdom"" before disappearing), as suggested by Nicolae Iorga's theory of the ""Romaniae"", i.e. self-organized communities of romanophone peasants all across medieval Europe.