Aland, Åland (archipelago and autonomous province of Finland located southwest of the Finnish mainland)
köken: Unclear. First attested as Ahwenan maan (genitive) in 1648. One theory derives the name from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚺᚹᚢᛚᚨᛞᚨ (*ahwulada), the first part of which the Finnic peoples would have associated with ahven (“perch”). According to the same theory the Swedish name of the islands, Åland, would come from the same origin. Another theory, proposed by Schalin (2008), is that the word was originally…
Åland (an autonomous province of Finland; capital and largest city: Mariehamn) · Åland (an archipelago of the Baltic Sea, Finland)
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from ahven (“perch”) + maa (“land”), the first term can possibly be derived from Proto-Norse ᚨᚺᚹᚨᛚᚨᚾᛞ (ahwaland, “water-land”). See Finnish Ahvenanmaa for further etymology.