Estland

From Middle English Estlond, from Old English Ēstland, equivalent to Est +‎ -land.

Estland

1. (rare) A country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
   • 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).

• Estish

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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)

• Estlander
• Estlands

• Est
• Esties

Estland

1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

• ester
• estisk

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɛst.lɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: Est‧land

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)

• stalden

Estland

1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

Estland

1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

• Eestland, Ehstland, Esthland (obsolete)

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːstlant/, (also) /ˈɛstlant/

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• Rhymes: -ant

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)

• Este
• Estländer
• estländisch
• estnisch

• Russian: Эстляндия (Estljandija)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “Эстляндия”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

• “Estland” in Duden online
• “Estland” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Estland on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• IPA^(key): /ˈæstlant/, [ˈæzdlɑnt]

Estland n

1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

Estland

1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

• ester, estlending, estlender
• estlandsk, estisk

Estland

1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

• estlending, estlendar
• estlandsk, estisk

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːstˌlɑnd/

Ēstland n

1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)
2. Land of the Aestii

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: Ēstland

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛstland/

Estland n (genitive Estlands)

1. Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

• estländare
• estländsk
• estländska

• Estland in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

• deltans, landets, stelnad