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Finland

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English

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Etymology

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Ultimately, from Old Norse Finnland, equivalent to Finn +‎ -land. Compare Old English Finna land (“Lapland”, literally “land of the Sami”).

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Finland (usually uncountable, plural Finlands)

  2. A Nordic country having borders with Sweden, Norway and Russia in Europe. Official name: Republic of Finland.
    • 2012 September 6, Bryony Jones, “Why is unity so important to Europe?”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Over the following decades, the EEC became the European Union, and expanded from the original six nations to today’s 27 members, from Finland in the north to Malta in the south.
    • 2017 March 2, Eliza Mackintosh, “No more excuses on resettling refugees, European Commission warns”, in CNN‎[2]:
      And so far just two member states, Malta and Finland, are on track to meet their resettling obligations.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Finland.

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Descendants

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  • → Japanese: フィンランド (Finrando)

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countries in Europe (appendix)edit

Afrikaans

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Proper noun

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Finland

  1. Finland (a country in Northern Europe; capital and largest city: Helsinki)
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Breton

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Finland

  1. Finland (a country in Northern Europe)

Danish

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Proper noun

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Finland

  1. Finland (a country in Northern Europe)
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countries in Europe: Europas lande (appendix)edit

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed and first attested in the 16th century Dutch translation of Olaus Magnus Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus by Cornelius Grapheus, but whether it was borrowed from Latin or a Germanic translation, e.g. Swedish, Low German or High German, is uncertain.

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Finland n (adjective Fins or Finlands, demonym Fin m or Finlander m or Finse f or Finlandse f)

  1. Finland (a country in Northern Europe)

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countries in Europe: landen van Europa (appendix)edit

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Finland

  1. Finland (a country in Northern Europe)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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Finland

  1. Finland (a country in Northern Europe)

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Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Old Norse Finnland.

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Finland n (genitive Finlands)

  1. Finland (a country in Northern Europe; official name: Republiken Finland)
  2. (historical) Finland (one of the four regions of Sweden, together with Götaland, Svealand and Norrland)

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countries in Europe: Europas länder (appendix)edit

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