Langtbortistan
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See also: Långtbortistan
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From langt borte (“far away”) + -stan (“-stan”), coined by Donald Duck translator Sonja Rindom to denote a fictitious far-away country, calque of English Faroffistan, coined in 1958 by Carl Fallberg. Cf. Swedish Långtbortistan, Dutch Verweggistan.
Proper noun
[edit]Langtbortistan
Further reading
[edit]- Becker-Christensen, Christian (2010) Nudansk ordbog med etymologi [Modern Danish Dictionary with Etymology], Politikens Forlagshus
- “Langtbortistan” in Den Danske Ordbog