Newfoundland

EnglishEdit

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Newfoundland

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English new found lande (in a letter, apparently written in 1499, from Henry VII of England to his lord chancellor, Cardinal John Morton, about the North American land explored by Sebastian and John Cabot, a likely location being Newfoundland, or the name later being specifically narrowed down to it),^[1] equivalent to newfound +‎ land, a calque of Portuguese Terra Nova (“New Land”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Portuguese???”)

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːˌfaʊnd.lənd/, /ˈnjuː.fənd.lənd/, /ˈnjuː.fənd.lænd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)uˌfaʊnd.lənd/, /ˈn(j)u.fənd.lənd/, /ˈn(j)u.fəndˌlænd/, /ˈn(j)uˌfaʊnd.lænd/
(Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.fənˌlænd/, /ˈnu.fəndˌlænd/, /ˈnu.fəndˌlən(d)/

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Proper nounEdit

Newfoundland

A large island off the coast of eastern Canada, which, along with Labrador, has composed the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador since 1949, and the Dominion of Newfoundland, before it.
A province of Canada
1. (historical) Former name of Newfoundland and Labrador.;
2. (informal) Ellipsis of Newfoundland and Labrador.
(historical) Ellipsis of Dominion of Newfoundland.; A former country in North America
(historical) Ellipsis of Colony of Newfoundland.; A former colony of North America, of British North America, British Empire, United Kingdom

SynonymsEdit

island

Derived termsEdit

provincial abbreviations

TranslationsEdit

Island off the coast of Eastern Canada

Basque: Ternua
Breton: Douar-Nevez m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 紐芬蘭／纽芬兰 (nau⁵ fan¹ laan⁴)

Mandarin: 紐芬蘭／纽芬兰 (zh) (Niǔfēnlán)
Dutch: Newfoundland
Faroese: Nýfundland n
Finnish: Newfoundland (fi)
French: Terre-Neuve (fr) f
German: Neufundland (de) n
Greek: Νέα Γη f (Néa Gi)
Hindi: न्यूफ़ाउंडलैंड m (nyūfāuṇḍlaiṇḍ)
Hungarian: Új-Fundland (hu)
Icelandic: Nýfundnaland n
Inuktitut: ᓂᐅᐸᐅᓛᓐ (niopaolaan)
Irish: Talamh an Éisc
Italian: Terranova f
Japanese: ニューファンドランド (Nyūfandorando)
Latin: Terra Nova f
Manx: Thalloo yn Eeast m
Mi'kmaq: Taqamkuk
Norman: Tèrre-Neuve f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Newfoundland

Nynorsk: Newfoundland
Polish: Nowa Fundlandia (pl) f
Portuguese: Terra Nova (pt) f
Russian: Ньюфа́ундленд (ru) m (Nʹjufáundlend)
Scottish Gaelic: Talamh an Èisg f, Eilean a' Trosg m
Spanish: Terranova f, Tierra Nueva f
Ukrainian: Ньюфа́ундленд m (Nʹjufáundlend)
Volapük: Nula-Faunlän (vo)
Welsh: y Tir Newydd m

NounEdit

Newfoundland (plural Newfoundlands)

A very large breed of working dog from Newfoundland, with a shaggy, usually black coat, known for its water rescue ability, strength, and gentle disposition.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 311:
  The younger, a frank, bold, bright-eyed child, was mounted on a large Newfoundland dog, whose impatience the elder brother was trying to soothe.

SynonymsEdit

Newf

TranslationsEdit

dog

Finnish: newfoundlandinkoira
French: chien de Terre-Neuve, terre-neuve (fr)
German: Neufundländer (de)
Hindi: न्यूफ़ाउंडलैंड m (nyūfāuṇḍlaiṇḍ)
Hungarian: újfundlandi
Irish: madra Thalamh an Éisc m
Italian: terranova m, cane di Terranova m
Polish: nowofundland (pl) m, nowofundlandczyk (pl) m, wodołaz (pl) m
Slovak: novofundlanďan m, novofunlandský pes m
Spanish: terranova m

ReferencesEdit

^ Evan T. Jones (2013), “Bristol, Cabot and the New Found Land, 1496–1500”, in Peter Edward Pope and Shannon Lewis-Simpson, editors, Exploring Atlantic Transitions: Archaeologies of Transience and Permanence in New Found Lands (The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology; monograph 8), The Boydell Press, page 28:
Of these documents, the most important was a letter, apparently written in 1499, from Henry VII to his lord chancellor, Cardinal John Morton. This letter instructed the lord chancellor to suspend legal proceedings against William Weston of Bristol, on the grounds that it was the king’s intention that Weston would ‘shortly with God’s grace pass and sail for to search and find if he can the new found lande’. Since the letter seems to post-date Cabot’s voyages, but cannot be later than 12 March 1500, it would appear to be a reference to a previously unknown voyage, led by a merchant not known to be associated with the Bristol expeditions. The document is of interest, moreover, both because it is the first to employ the term ‘new found land’ and because it serves to endorse one of Ruddock’s key claims – that William Weston of Bristol led an independent expedition to the New World in 1499.

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)yːfɑundlænd/, [ˈn(j)yːfɑˌundlænd]

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈnyːfɑundlænd/, [ˈnyːfɑˌundlænd]

Proper nounEdit

Newfoundland

Newfoundland (island)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of Newfoundland (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Newfoundland	—
genitive		Newfoundlandin	—
partitive		Newfoundlandia	—
illative		Newfoundlandiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Newfoundland	—
accusative	nom.	Newfoundland	—
accusative	gen.	Newfoundlandin	—
genitive		Newfoundlandin	—
partitive		Newfoundlandia	—
inessive		Newfoundlandissa	—
elative		Newfoundlandista	—
illative		Newfoundlandiin	—
adessive		Newfoundlandilla	—
ablative		Newfoundlandilta	—
allative		Newfoundlandille	—
essive		Newfoundlandina	—
translative		Newfoundlandiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Newfoundlanditta	—
comitative		—	—