Estlandとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

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).

参考

• Estish

語源

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.

発音

• IPA: /ˈeːstˌlɑnd/

固有名詞

Ēstland n

1. Land of the Aestii

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: Ēstland