Etymology

Livonia

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Today it means: A historical region in the Baltic, south of the Gulf of Finland, now divided and constituting southern Estonia and northern Latvia. Full definition →

Latin Livonia ← Estonian liiv ← Proto-Finnic *liiva
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  1. Proto-Finnic*liiva
  2. Estonianliiv
  3. LatinLivonia
  4. English todayLivonia

From Latin Livonia, from Estonian liiv (“sand”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.