The story
- Middle Dutch · derived fromSweden
- Scots · borrowed fromSwethin
- English todaySweden
Borrowed from Scots Swethin, Swadne (also Swaden), from Middle Dutch Sweden, dative of Swede. Originally used to refer to the people before the late 1600s, later displaced native Old English Swēoland (literally “Swede land”), Swēoþēod (literally “Swede nation”), and Swēorīċe (literally “Swede kingdom”) to refer to the country.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.