/ˈʋɑrsinɑi̯sˌsuo̯mi/FINCE → TR
Tanım
•Southwest Finland, Finland Proper; a province (maakunta) of Finland.
Etimoloji
varsinainen (“proper”) + Suomi (“Finland”), named so because Suomi originally referred to this region and only later to the entire country. The Finnish term, which only became established in the mid-19th century, is a calque of Swedish Egentliga Finland, which is found from at least the 18th century. Some Latin texts in the 1650s already use terms like Fenningia specialiter dicta (literally…