Abessinia
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This is the flag of the Ethiopian Empire used from 1941–1974. 
The Empire of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), the Kingdom of Shoa (Shewa) and the Emirate of Harar c. 1873.
Finnish
Etymology
From German Abessinien.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Abessinia
- (historical) Abyssinia (a former empire in East Africa, consisting of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea the Ethiopian Empire,)
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Abyssinia" is Abessiniassa.
| Inflection of Abessinia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Abessinia | — | |
| genitive | Abessinian | — | |
| partitive | Abessiniaa | — | |
| illative | Abessiniaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Abessinia | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Abessinia | — |
| gen. | Abessinian | ||
| genitive | Abessinian | — | |
| partitive | Abessiniaa | — | |
| inessive | Abessiniassa | — | |
| elative | Abessiniasta | — | |
| illative | Abessiniaan | — | |
| adessive | Abessinialla | — | |
| ablative | Abessinialta | — | |
| allative | Abessinialle | — | |
| essive | Abessiniana | — | |
| translative | Abessiniaksi | — | |
| abessive | Abessiniatta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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compounds
Norwegian Bokmål
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Etymology
From Medieval Latin Abissini, a form of Abissīnus (“Abyssinian, Ethiopian”), either from Arabic الحَبَشِيّ (al-ḥabašiyy, “Ethiopian”), a form of الْحَبَشَة (al-ḥabaša, “Abyssinia”) (with the suffix ـِيّ (-iyy)), from the root ح ب ش (ḥ b š), or from Amharic ሀበሻ (häbäša, “Habesha (The inhabitants of Abyssinia)”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Abessinia
- (historical) Abyssinia (a former empire in East Africa, consisting of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea the Ethiopian Empire,)
Synonyms
- Etiopia (“Ethiopia”)
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Abessinia
- (historical) Abyssinia (a former empire in East Africa, consisting of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea the Ethiopian Empire,)