Etymology

Livonian

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Today it means: A person from Livonia. Full definition →

English Livonia ← Latin Livonia ← Estonian liiv
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The story

  1. Proto-Finnic*liiva
  2. Estonianliiv
  3. LatinLivonia
  4. EnglishLivonia
  5. English todayLivonian

From Livonia + -an.

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