Translation
Swede, Swedish person
Word origin
From German Schwede, ultimately the Old Norse self-designation Svíar, the people who gave Sweden its name. The Swedish form is svensk and the country is Sverige, both from the same root.
- Origin
- Germanic, via German
- Root
- Svíar
- English cognates
- Swede, Sweden, Swedish
Examples
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The Swede next to me spoke good Esperanto.
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Many Swedes took part in the international congress.
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She is a Swede, but she lives in a warm country.
Esperanto names peoples before it names countries. is the person; add -a for sveda, Swedish; add - for Svedio, Sweden. Older texts write o with the -- suffix and both are correct, though - is what you will meet today.
This chapter is quietly assembling the set. and arrive in the same band as , and they join anglo, franco, germano, ruso and hispano. Learn the shape once and every new nationality is free. Countries named after a place rather than a people run the other way, o first and second: the whole system is set out in landoj kaj popoloj.
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