FromMiddle EnglishEstlond, fromOld EnglishĒstland, equivalent toEst +‎-land.

Estland

1. (rare)A country in northeasternEurope, on the southeastern coast of theBaltic Sea. Official name:Republic of Estonia.
   • 2011, Armin G. Stromberg, R. G. Compton,A.G. Stromberg:

     Thus, by the middle of the 19th century the Russian Empire had expanded to include extensive parts of Poland, a large part of Livonia andEstland (Estonia).

   • 2012, Snorri Sturluson,Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings, page24:

     One summer, he brought out his army, went toEstland, and harried there during the summer in a spot called Stein.

   • 2019, David Crowe,The Baltic States And The Great Powers:

     The Russian revolutions of 1917 and the Russian civil war provided the background for this struggle, which resulted in Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian nationhood as the former Russian provinces ofEstland (Estonia), Livland (Livonia) and Kurland became the independent republics of Estonia (February 1918) and Latvia (November 1918) and much of the three former Russian provinces of Kaunas, Vilnius, and Suvalkai became independent Lithuania (November 1918).

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Estland

1. Estonia (a country in northeasternEurope, on the southeastern coast of theBaltic Sea; capital and largest city:Tallinn)

• Estlander
• Estlands

• Est
• Esties

Estland

1. Estonia (a country in northeasternEurope, on the southeastern coast of theBaltic Sea)

• ester
• estisk

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• IPA^(key):/ˈɛst.lɑnt/

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• Hyphenation:Est‧land

Estland n (adjectiveEsts,demonymEst morEstse f)

1. Estonia (a country in northeasternEurope, on the southeastern coast of theBaltic Sea)

• stalden

Estland

1. Estonia (a country in northeasternEurope, on the southeastern coast of theBaltic Sea)

Estland

1. Estonia (a country in northeasternEurope, on the southeastern coast of theBaltic Sea)

• Eestland,Ehstland,Esthland(obsolete)

Perhaps fromMedieval LatinAestland (attested inAdam of Bremen), from the name of theAestii tribe (seeWikipedia). But seeEesti for other possibilities.

• IPA^(key):/ˈeːstlant/,(also)/ˈɛstlant/

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• Rhymes:-ant

Estland n (proper noun,genitiveEstlandsor(optionally with an article)Estland)

1. Estonia (a country in northeasternEurope, on the southeastern coast of theBaltic Sea)

• Este
• Estländer
• estländisch
• estnisch

• Russian:Эстляндия(Estljandija)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “Эстляндия”, inOleg Trubachyov, transl.,Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

• “Estland” inDuden online
• “Estland” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
•  Estland on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia^de

• IPA^(key):/ˈæstlant/,[ˈæzdlɑnt]

Estland n

1. Estonia (a country in northeasternEurope, on the southeastern coast of theBaltic Sea)

Estland

1. Estonia (a country in northeasternEurope, on the southeastern coast of theBaltic Sea)

• ester,estlending,estlender
• estlandsk,estisk

Estland

1. Estonia (a country in northeasternEurope, on the southeastern coast of theBaltic Sea)

• estlending,estlendar
• estlandsk,estisk

Derived from the plural nounĒste(“the Estonians”), from the name of theAestii tribe (seeWikipedia). The first element could also be an unattested singular form*Ēst, from the same source. In any case, the second element island.

• IPA^(key):/ˈeːstˌlɑnd/

Ēstland n

1. Estonia (a country in northeasternEurope, on the southeastern coast of theBaltic Sea)

Stronga-stem:

• Middle English:Ēstland

Estland n (genitiveEstlands)

1. Estonia (a country in northeasternEurope, on the southeastern coast of theBaltic Sea)

• estländare
• estländsk
• estländska

• Estland inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

• deltans,landets,stelnad