Why Is Suomi Called Finland In English?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2017
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This video was so heavily requested I couldn't not make it. Annoyingly there just isn't a definitive answer for this question. It was a really double ended sword making this as so many people wanted it but I just don't think there's enough content for it. Anyway I hope you all enjoyed!
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I call it Funland. The homeland of Spurdo Spärde
in Swedish "fin" means Beautiful (ish) so ill just go with "beautiful land" ;)
i tough that most americans doesent know finland, because we are (small) country and not that special. and im really shocked that someone other than swedish or finnish made video about us.
Next episode: Why Turkey is called Turkey and what does that do with the animal?
Suomi in finland is ofthen said to come from the Finnish word for swamp suo :P nice video!
I always thought that Suomi was just some word that Finns scream out randomly.
"Finrando" sounds funny to me. It sounds like a Japanese person trying to say "Finland".
Nokia shall rise again!
The name "Finland" comes from "Fennae", a name given by Tacitus to a people who lived far to the north of the Germanic tribes that he described in his work "Germania", and whom he described as being "exceedingly fierce" and praised for their skill at archery, and he said that their arrows were tipped with bone rather than iron. The Vikings also mentioned the Finns in their sagas, and generally characterized them as ferocious and cunning and skilled at sorcery. Traditionally, the Suomi and Saami are two separate but related people....the Suomi are farmers, fishermen and craftsmen whereas the Saami generally inhabit the most northerly part of Finland (and neighboring countries) and are pastoral nomads.
Another theory for the name "Suomi" is that it comes from the words Suo (Swamp) and maa (land). Suomi, Suomaa. So maybe Finland and Suomi aren't such different names after all :D
OON ODOTTANUT KOLME TUNTIA TORILLA MUTTA KETÄÄN EI NÄY VAIKKA KOMMENTTEJA NÄKYY nyt kun kirjoitan tätä niin ajattelin onkohan tämä oikea tori
And Germany is Saksa in finnish. For the Saxony part probably? That might go back a millennia or more.
The name Suomi has a word "suo" meaning "swamp" in it. And i think the original word for swamp was "suomi" but it got shortened to "suo" over time.
And now Magyarország=Hungary please
The "fen" -> marsh/swamp one would make a lot of sense to me since "suo" means the same in Finnish language, and "mi" is really close to the word "maa" meaning land. I'm just guessing here but it would kinda make sense.
Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan
Random question of the video: Who's going to win the Royal Rumble? I'm think either Undertaker, Braun Stroman, or a returning Finn Balor.
Just a curious addition, the name of Finland in Scottish Gaelic is also a variation of Suomi, that being "Suòmaidh", although the much less common "Fionnlainn" is also correct. It is peculiar to Scottish Gaelic, as the name of Finland in the other close Goidelic languages, Irish and Manx Gaelic are “Finnlynn” and "an Fhionlainn" respectively. The other three more distant Celtic languages are no different: "Y Ffindir" in Welsh, "Pow Finn" in Cornish, and simply "Finland" in Breton.
As a Finnish person, this was actually pretty educational!