Suomi

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Suomi

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From Finnish Suomi.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈswɔːmɪ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈswɔmi/

Suomi

1. Finland.
2. Finnish (language).
   • 1877, Abel Hovelacque, The Science of Language, page 90

     Suomi occupies the greater part of Finland

   • 1888, Canon Isaac Taylor, "The Origin and Primitive Seat of the Aryans", The journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 17, page 266

     The Finnic languages show that the primitive people were clad only in the skins of animals since the skin or hide of an animal is kut in Wotiak, ked in Mordwin and kete in Suomi.

   • 2011, John O'Neill and Steve Johansson, "Ladies and the Vamps", Knights of the Dinner Table: The Java Joint, →ISBN, page 32:

     "I THOUGHT HIS SITE WAS ENTIRELY IN SUOMI." "IF THAT MEANS IT'S GOT MORE DOTS OVER THE VOWELS THAN AN EIGHTIES HEAVY METAL ALBUM, I'LL TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT."

3. Finn (people)
   • 1893 Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, translation of the third edition by Z.A. Ragozin, page 69

     Over and above the 1,800,000 odd they number in Finland, the Suomi come in for about 250,000 more in the population of the adjacent Russian governments.

   • 1963, Francis Peabody Magoun Jr. (trans.), The Kalevala: Or, Poems of the Kaleva District

     the original homeland of the Suomi tribe (suomalaiset).

   • 1987, Gabriel Weisberg & Laurinda Dixon, The Documented Image, page 191

     the mythology of the Finnic peoples (the Suomi and Karelians)

   • 1997, Eric Christiansen, The Northern Crusades,

     Nevertheless, a community of Christians had been established among the Suomi (south-west Finns), and in 1215 there was a Finnish convert The motives of the Swedes who went into Suomi lands, and of the Suomi who accepted their faith and paid tithe to their bishop, can only be conjectured.

Suomi (uncountable)

1. (music) A freeform variation of psytrance music said to originate in Finland, where it is called suomisaundi.

“Suomi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “Suomi”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

Suomi

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From Proto-Finnic *soomi, probably from earlier *sämä and related to Proto-Samic *sāmē (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more details and references). The name originally referred only to the area now known as Southwest Finland (Finnish Varsinais-Suomi (literally “Finland Proper”)). Cognates include Estonian Soome, Ingrian Soomi, Livonian sūom, Votic soomi and (borrowed) Northern Sami Suopma. First attested in 811 in Royal Frankish Annals as an anthroponym (personal name).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuo̯mi/,

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uomi
• Hyphenation^(key): Suo‧mi

Suomi

2. (uncountable) Finland (country)

   Synonyms: Suomenmaa, Suomen tasavalta

3. a Finnish surname

• suomalainen
• suomi (language)

• Suomi is the 459^th (tied with 1 other surname) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 1,787 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• (countries of Europe) Euroopan maat; Alankomaat, Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaidžan, Belgia, Bosnia ja Hertsegovina, Bulgaria, Espanja, Georgia, Irlanti, Islanti, Iso-Britannia, Italia, Itävalta, Kazakstan, Kreikka, Kroatia, Kypros, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Liettua, Luxemburg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norja, Pohjois-Makedonia, Portugali, Puola, Ranska, Romania, Ruotsi, Saksa, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Suomi, Sveitsi, Tanska, Tšekki, Turkki, Ukraina, Unkari, Valko-Venäjä, Vatikaani, Venäjä, Viro ^{(Category: fi:Countries in Europe)}

Unadapted borrowing from Finnish Suomi. The native equivalent still exists as Soomi.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsuomi/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsuomi/,
• Rhymes: -uomʲ, -uomi
• Hyphenation: Su‧o‧mi

Suomi

1. Finland (a country in Europe)

• Soomi

• L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli (1936) P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, transl., Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 46

Suomi (genitive Suomen, partitive Suomie)

1. Superseded spelling of Šuomi.

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “Suomi”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

Livvi Wikipedia has an article on:

Suomi

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Probably either borrowed from or cognate with Finnish Suomi. ultimately from Proto-Finnic *soomi. Cognates include Estonian Soome and Karelian Suomi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuo̯mi/
• Hyphenation: Suo‧mi

Suomi

1. Finland (a country in Europe)

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 266

See Finnish Suomi.

Suomi

1. Finland