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[edit] Swedish-speaking Finns

Hi

You'll be happy to know that Finland Swedes has been renamed according to your suggestions. --Espoo 18:19, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Iceland

Maybe you are interested in this project... --Michkalas 15:58, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Superdong

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[edit] Gutiscandja

(You wrote)
You're right that the reference I could dig up online said so. Anyhow, I believe that the reference I used was written as a stance against the "standard dogma" that Gdansk probably comes from the Gothic language that's why I wrote "possibly". But since I could not find online reference for this, I think your version is good. Wahlin (talk) 00:08, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Thanks. I tried to make the best of what you found, but of course you're welcome to look around for whatever else is there to this story. Cheers, Poeticbent talk 01:26, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gutiskandja II

Me again. I could now dig up a general reference to an etymology lexicon, and I changed the wording of the Gdansk article accordingly. I don't think you should alter this writing. According to this discussion page, it is quite common that namnes are borrowed in this order: Germanic-->Slavic-->German(ic) see [[1]]. Another example is Finnish and Swedish. For example in Finland, there is a Swedish-speaking village with the Swedish name Raumo (Finnish Rauma). Raumo does not sound Swedish at all and the name has apparently been borrowed from Finnish, that in turn borrowed it from extremely old Swedish / Scandinavian (before 500 CE at least) *Strauma (=Stream). Other examples, Swedish village (in Sweden) Hortlax is originally from Finnish Hourtalahti (=Dog's bay, I think). Finnish capital Helsinki is from Swedish Helsingfors, so these borrowings go both ways. However, the Gothic thing don't have much to do with Germans. Probably Poles, Roumanians and Ukrainians share more genes with Goths than Germans do.Wahlin (talk) 16:02, 28 April 2008 (UTC)