Finland is the Nordic country of a thousand lakes and hot saunas. Travel to Finland, from Finland, the forests of Finland.
It has nearly two hundred thousand lakes and about as many saunas as households, which is roughly one for every two people. The language is unrelated to Swedish or Russian and belongs with Estonian and Hungarian. The north sees the sun neither set in midsummer nor rise in midwinter.
1nounfinlandThe Nordic country of lakes and forests.
“In winter, much of Finland is covered in snow and the lakes freeze solid.”
finland is a country.
Proto-Indo-European
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Old Norse
Finnland
English
Finland
English, today
finland
Finland Ultimately, from Old Norse Finnland, equivalent to Finn + -land. Compare Old English Finna land (“Lapland”) literally “land of the Sami”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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