Is the Canary Islands named after the bird called a canary?

Question

Is the Canary Islands named after the bird called a canary?

Answer 1

Nah! The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs." !!!.

Answer 2

The Canary Islands were formed by the Canary hotspot

5) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?

Dogs

The name "Islas Canarias" is likely derived from the Latin term Insula Canaria, meaning Island of the Dogs, a name applied originally only to Gran Canaria. The dense population of an endemic breed of large and fierce dogs, similar to the Canary Mastiff (in Spanish, el Presa Canario), may have been the characteristic that most struck the few ancient Romans who established contact with the islands by the sea but all of that is a myth, a eurocentrist teory, very abundand during spanish dictatorship, to unlink the african past of Canary Islands, indeed, dogs were not abundants animals in Canary islands, cause were the natural enemy of human population.

The true etymology, of "Canarias", is from the habitants of "Grand Canary island" that people called Kanarii, a name of a tribe from the south-eastern morocco. Actually localized near Tafilelt, exactly in Tafilelt oasis. There are a teori that the originally localization of that tribe, was in Chad lake, and was called Kanuri, but whit the desertization of sahara, they traveled to the west.

The meaning of the amazigh (berber) word of Kanar [K·N·R] is "vanguard, brave".

Answer 3

The islands are named after the dog, canis or canine.  The birds are named after the island where they were found.

Answer 4

The Canary Islands were formed by the Canary hotspot( volcanic hotspot).

The true etymology, of "Canarias", is from the habitants of "Grand Canary island" that people called Kanarii, a name of a tribe from the south-eastern morocco. Actually localized near Tafilelt, exactly in Tafilelt oasis. There are a teori that the originally localization of that tribe, was in Chad lake, and was called Kanuri, but whit the desertization of sahara, they traveled to the west.