•Lapland (geographical area that covers the northmost parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland plus a Northwestern corner of Russia) · Lapland (the northernmost maakunta (“region”) of Finland) · a former municipality of Satakunta, Finland, merged with Rauma in 2009.
From Lappa- + -i (compare lappalainen). There are two main theories on the origin of this word: * related to lape, (dialectal) lappea, originally in the meaning “remote place” (compare Moksha лапш (lapš), Erzya лапужа (lapuža, “flat”)) * Swedish lapp (“patch”), as a calque of the Sami endonym represented by e.g. vuowjoš (1743 hapax legomenon in the Sami variety spoken in or around Tornio,…