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Estland

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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) Synonym of Estonia
    • 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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Afrikaans Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia af

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

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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)

Derived terms

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Danish

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Danish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia da

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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See also

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countries in Europe: Europas lande (appendix)edit

Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

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/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Est‧land

Proper noun

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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

Anagrams

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Faroese

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Faroese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fo

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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Proper noun

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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)

See also

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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

Further reading

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Low German

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Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nds-nl

Proper noun

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Estland

  1. alternative form of Eestland

Luxembourgish

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Luxembourgish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lb

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈæstlant/, [ˈæzdlɑnt]

Proper noun

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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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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no
The Estonian flag flying in Tallinn.
Estonia in Europe.

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Norse Eistland, from the Old Norse ethnonym eistr (“Estonian”) + land (“land, country”), literally “land of the Estonians”. The precise route into modern Norwegian is uncertain.

The ethnonym belongs to an old Germanic naming tradition also represented by Ēste (“the Aestii”) and Ēstland (“land of the Aestii”). These forms are commonly connected with Latin Aestiī, the name used by Tacitus around 98 CE for a people living on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. It is uncertain whether the ancient Aestii can be identified directly with the ancestors of the modern Estonians, and the ultimate origin of the ethnonym is disputed.

Compare Danish Estland, Swedish Estland, Faroese Estland, Icelandic Eistland, German Estland and Old English Ēstland (“Estonia”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /¹est.lan/, [ˈɛ̀st.lǎn]
  • Rhymes: -estlan
  • Hyphenation: Est‧land

Proper noun

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Estland

  1. Estonia; a country in Northern Europe, Europe, on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, with Tallinn as its capital
    Vi tok ferge fra Helsinki til Tallinn i Estland. ― We took a ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn in Estonia.
    • 2026 May 9, Nils Petter Thuesen and Sten Lundbo, “Estland”, in Store norske leksikon‎[2]:
      Estland er en republikk i Europa på østsiden av Østersjøen.
      Estonia is a republic in Europe on the eastern side of the Baltic Sea.

Usage notes

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  • The official Norwegian long-form name is Republikken Estland (“the Republic of Estonia”).

Derived terms

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  • estisk (“Estonian; Estonian language”)

Descendants

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See also

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countries in Europe: Europas land (appendix)edit

References

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

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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Old English

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Old English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ang

Etymology

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Derived from the plural noun Ēste (“the Aestii”), 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.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Ēstland n

  1. Land of the Aestii

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

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

Descendants

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Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Pronunciation

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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)

Derived terms

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See also

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countries in Europe: Europas länder (appendix)edit

References

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Anagrams

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