Etymology

Lapland

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Today it means: The northern parts of Scandinavia and Finland with the Kola Peninsula in Russia, traditionally inhabited by the Sami people. Full definition →

English land ← Middle English lond ← Old English land
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The story

  1. EnglishLapp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lendʰ-
  3. Proto-Germanic*landą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*land
  5. Old Englishland
  6. Middle Englishlond
  7. Englishland
  8. English todayLapland

From Lapp + -land.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.