Estland

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Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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Estland

  1. Estonia (a country in Northern Europe; capital: Tallinn)

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Danish

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Danish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Estland

  1. Estonia (a country in Europe)
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Dutch

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɛst.lɑnt/
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  • Hyphenation: Est‧land

Proper noun

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Estland n (adjective Ests, demonym Est m or Estse f)

  1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

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Dutch Low Saxon

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Proper noun

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Estland

  1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

Faroese

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Proper noun

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Estland

  1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

Declension

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n8 -land Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Estland
Accusative
Dative Estlandi
Genitive Estlands

German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Perhaps from Medieval Latin Aestland (attested in Adam of Bremen), from the name of the Aestii tribe (see Wikipedia). But see Eesti for other possibilities.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈeːstlant/, (also) /ˈɛstlant/
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  • Rhymes: -ant

Proper noun

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Estland n (proper noun, genitive Estlands or (optionally with an article) Estland)

  1. Estonia (a country in Eastern Europe)
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Descendants

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  • Russian: Эстляндия (Estljandija)

See also

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References

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “Эстляндия”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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Luxembourgish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈæstlant/, [ˈæzdlɑnt]

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Estland n

  1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Proper noun

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Estland

  1. Estonia (a country in Europe)
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Proper noun

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Estland

  1. Estonia (a country in Europe)
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Old English

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Etymology

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Derived from the plural noun Ēste (the Estonians), from the name of the Aestii tribe (see Wikipedia). The first element could also be an unattested singular form *Ēst, from the same source. In any case, the second element is land.

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Ēstland n

  1. Estonia

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Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Proper noun

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Estland n (genitive Estlands)

  1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

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