Suomi

See also: suomi, šuomi, and Šuomi

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Suomi

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Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish Suomi.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈswɔːmɪ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈswɔmi/

Proper noun

Suomi

1. Finland (a country in Northern Europe).
2. Finnish (language).
   • 1877, Abel Hovelacque, The Science of Language, page 90

     Suomi occupies the greater part of Finland

   • 1888, Canon Isaac Taylor, "The Origin and Primitive Seat of the Aryans", The journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 17, page 266

     The Finnic languages show that the primitive people were clad only in the skins of animals since the skin or hide of an animal is kut in Wotiak, ked in Mordwin and kete in Suomi.

   • 2011, John O'Neill and Steve Johansson, "Ladies and the Vamps", Knights of the Dinner Table: The Java Joint, →ISBN, page 32:

     "I THOUGHT HIS SITE WAS ENTIRELY IN SUOMI." "IF THAT MEANS IT'S GOT MORE DOTS OVER THE VOWELS THAN AN EIGHTIES HEAVY METAL ALBUM, I'LL TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT."

3. Finn (people)
   • 1893 Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, translation of the third edition by Z.A. Ragozin, page 69

     Over and above the 1,800,000 odd they number in Finland, the Suomi come in for about 250,000 more in the population of the adjacent Russian governments.

   • 1963, Francis Peabody Magoun Jr. (trans.), The Kalevala: Or, Poems of the Kaleva District

     the original homeland of the Suomi tribe (suomalaiset).

   • 1987, Gabriel Weisberg & Laurinda Dixon, The Documented Image, page 191

     the mythology of the Finnic peoples (the Suomi and Karelians)

   • 1997, Eric Christiansen, The Northern Crusades,

     Nevertheless, a community of Christians had been established among the Suomi (south-west Finns), and in 1215 there was a Finnish convert […] The motives of the Swedes who went into Suomi lands, and of the Suomi who accepted their faith and paid tithe to their bishop, can only be conjectured.

Noun

Suomi (uncountable)

1. (music) A freeform variation of psytrance music said to originate in Finland, where it is called suomisaundi.

References

“Suomi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “Suomi”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.