Etymology

scandia

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Today it means: scandium oxide Full definition →

Latin Scandia ← Old Norse Skáney ← Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ékʷeh₂
  2. Proto-Germanic*awjō
  3. Proto-Germanic*Skadinawjō
  4. Old NorseSkáney
  5. LatinScandia
  6. English todayScandia

Borrowed from Latin Scandia. See Scandinavia and Scania for more.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.