Samogitia

English

Ethnographic regions of Lithuania.

██ Lithuania Minor ██ Samogitia ██ Aukštaitija

██ Suvalkija ██ Dzūkija

Etymology

From Latin Samogetia, Samogitia (“Žemaitija”), from German Sameiten, Sameythen (“Žemaitija”), from Lithuanian Žemaitija (“lowland”). "g" was introduced to Latin and later German translations due to the usage of the letter "g" to denote "j" in Medieval writing.

Sometimes connected with the (etymologically unrelated) name Getae, Ancient Greek Γέτης (Gétēs, “ancient Dacian tribe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsa.mə(ʊ)ˈɡiː.ʃə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsæ.moʊˈɡi.ʃə/, /ˌsæ.məˈɡi.ʃə/

Proper noun

Samogitia

1. An ethnographic region of Lithuania, located in the north-west of the country.

Derived terms

• Samogitian

Translations

Samogitia

• Armenian: Ժեմայտիա (Žemaytia)
• Belarusian: Жамо́йць f (Žamójcʹ), Жмудзь f (Žmudzʹ)
• Bulgarian: Жемайтия f (Žemajtija)
• Catalan: Samogítia f
• Czech: Žmuď (cs) f, Žemaitsko n
• Danish: Samogitien
• Dutch: Samogitië f
• Esperanto: Ĵemajtio
• Finnish: Samogitia (fi)
• French: Samogitie (fr) f
• Georgian: ჟემაიტია (žemaiṭia)
• German: Samogitien f, Schamaiten f
• Greek: Σαμογιτία f (Samogitía)
• Hungarian: Szamogitia (hu)
• Italian: Samogizia f
• Japanese: ジェマイティヤ (jemaitiya)
• Korean: 사모기티아 (samogitia)
• Latvian: Žemaitija f
• Lithuanian:

  Aukštaitian: Žemaitija (lt) f

  Samogitian: Žemaitėjė f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Samogitia f

  Nynorsk: Samogitia f

• Polish: Żmudź (pl) f
• Portuguese: Samogícia f
• Romanian: Samogitia
• Russian: Жемайтия f (Žemajtija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Жемајтија f

  Roman: Žemajtija f

• Slovak: Žmuď f
• Slovene: Samogitija f
• Spanish: Samogitia f
• Swedish: Samogitien (sv)
• Ukrainian: Жмудь m (Žmudʹ), Жема́йтія f (Žemájtija)

Further reading

• "Žemaitija", , in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

Spanish

Proper noun

Samogitia f

1. Samogitia (a region of Lithuania)