Eswatini
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Swazi eSwatini, the country's native name, declared to also be its official English name on April 19, 2018.
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Eswatini
- A country in Southern Africa, formerly called Swaziland. Official name: Kingdom of Eswatini. Capitals: Mbabane and Lobamba.
- 2020 May 21, Keoni Everington, “Over 40 Eswatini students duped into skinning chickens in W. Taiwan”, in Taiwan News[1], archived from the original on 25 May 2020, Society[2]:
- Taiwan's ambassador to the Kingdom of Eswatini, Jeremy Liang (梁洪昇), told the paper that he had just been informed of the situation and that "the matter was being looked into." Liang said he had helped the students process their applications to the university and had not been aware of the conditions of the workplace they were to be assigned to.
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Translations edit
country in Southern Africa — see also Swaziland
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References edit
- ^ “Eswatini” (US) / “Eswatini” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- ^ “Eswatini”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “eSwatini”, in Collins English Dictionary. (using the older British transcription of a final /i/ sound as /ɪ/)
Further reading edit
- Eswatini on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “eSwatini”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Afrikaans edit
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Etymology edit
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Eswatini
- Eswatini (a country in Southern Africa, formerly called Swaziland; capitals: Mbabane and Lobamba)
Finnish edit
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Eswatini
- Eswatini (a country in Southern Africa, formerly called Swaziland)
Usage notes edit
- The country changed its English name from Swaziland to eSwatini in 2018. In many other languages, including Finnish, the initial "e" is capitalized instead of the "S".
Declension edit
Inflection of Eswatini (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Eswatini | — | ||
genitive | Eswatinin | — | ||
partitive | Eswatinia | — | ||
illative | Eswatiniin | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Eswatini | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Eswatini | — | |
gen. | Eswatinin | |||
genitive | Eswatinin | — | ||
partitive | Eswatinia | — | ||
inessive | Eswatinissa | — | ||
elative | Eswatinista | — | ||
illative | Eswatiniin | — | ||
adessive | Eswatinilla | — | ||
ablative | Eswatinilta | — | ||
allative | Eswatinille | — | ||
essive | Eswatinina | — | ||
translative | Eswatiniksi | — | ||
abessive | Eswatinitta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Eswatini
- Eswatini (a country in Southern Africa, formerly called Swaziland)
- Synonym: Uswazi
See also edit
- (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]
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