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Estland

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English Estlond, from Old English Ēstland, equivalent to Est +‎ -land.

Proper noun

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Estland

  1. (rare) A country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
    • 2011, Armin G. Stromberg, R. G. Compton, A.G. Stromberg:
      Thus, by the middle of the 19th century the Russian Empire had expanded to include extensive parts of Poland, a large part of Livonia and Estland (Estonia).
    • 2012, Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings, page 24:
      One summer, he brought out his army, went to Estland, and harried there during the summer in a spot called Stein.
    • 2019, David Crowe, The Baltic States And The Great Powers:
      The Russian revolutions of 1917 and the Russian civil war provided the background for this struggle, which resulted in Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian nationhood as the former Russian provinces of Estland (Estonia), Livland (Livonia) and Kurland became the independent republics of Estonia (February 1918) and Latvia (November 1918) and much of the three former Russian provinces of Kaunas, Vilnius, and Suvalkai became independent Lithuania (November 1918).

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Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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Estland

  1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea; capital and largest city: Tallinn)

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Danish

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Estland

  1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)
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countries in Europe: Europas lande (appendix)edit

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

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

  1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

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countries in Europe: landen van Europa (appendix)edit

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Dutch Low Saxon

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Estland

  1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

Faroese

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Proper noun

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Estland

  1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

Declension

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singular
indefinite
nominative Estland
accusative Estland
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

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

  1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)
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Descendants

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  • Russian: Эстляндия (Estljandija)

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countries in Europe: Staaten Europas (appendix)edit

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 northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Proper noun

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Estland

  1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Estland

  1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)
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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 (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)
  2. Land of the Aestii

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative Ēstland —
accusative Ēstland —
genitive Ēstlandes —
dative Ēstlande —

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Swedish

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Proper noun

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Estland n (genitive Estlands)

  1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

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