Hungary, the name in English for the European country, is an exonym derived from the Medieval Latin . The Latin name itself derives from the ethnonyms , , and for the steppe people that conquered the land today known as Hungary in the 9th and 10th centuries. Medieval authors denominated the Hungarians as , but the Hungarians even contemporarily denominate themselves s and their homeland . Name of the Hungarians and Hungary Endonym of the ethnic group and country Primary sources use several names for the Magyars/Hungarians. However, their original historical endonym/ethnonym — the name they used to refer to themselves in the Early Middle Ages — is uncertain. In sources written in Arabic, the Magyars are denominated or , for example by Ahmad ibn Rustah; or , such as by al-Mas’udi; by al-Tartushi, for instance; and , by sources like ibn Hayyan). One of the earliest written mentions of "Magyar" endonym is from 810. The Hungarian endonym is , which is derived from Old Hungarian . The name is derived from of the 9th or 10th century (contemporarily ), one of the 7 major semi-nomadic Hungarian tribes (the others being the , , , , , and ), which dominated the others after the ascension of one of its members, namely , and his subsequent dynasty. The tribal name became in reference to the Hungarian people as a whole. The folk etymology holds that was derived from the name of Prince Muageris. There are many hypotheses on the origin of this name. The accepted is that the first element derives from Proto-Ugric *mäńć- ("man", "person"), which is also found in the name of the Mansi (, , and ). The second element ("man", "men", and "lineage") survives in Hungarian ("husband") and is cognate with Mari ("son") and Finnish archaic ("young man"). European exonyms for Hungarians and Hungary In Byzantine sources, the Magyars are called ; , by Emperor Leo VI "the Wise", for example; and , such as by Emperor Constantine VII . Written sources called Magyars "Ungarians" prior to the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895–6 when they lived on the steppes of Eastern Europe, specifically: by Georgius Monachus in 837, in of 862, and in of 881. The Latin variant used for them by Widukind of Corvey in his The Deeds of the Saxons of the 10th century is most probably patterned after Middle High