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Shetlander en · NOUN

Etymology

From Shetland + -er.

Meanings

1. A native or inhabitant of the Shetland Islands.
   • The Shetlanders believe in two kinds of Trows, as they call the Scandinavian Trolls, those of the land and those of the sea. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 260:

Forms

Translations (22)

nn shetlendar (person from the Shetland Islands) · fr Shetlandais (person from the Shetland Islands) · nb shetlending (person from the Shetland Islands) · nl Shetlander (person from the Shetland Islands) · de Shetländerin (person from the Shetland Islands) · cmn 設德蘭人 /设德兰人 (person from the Shetland Islands) · nn hjaltlending (person from the Shetland Islands) · pl Szetlandka (person from the Shetland Islands) · cmn 設得蘭人 /设得兰人 (person from the Shetland Islands) · sk Shetlanďan (person from the Shetland Islands) · fi shetlantilainen (person from the Shetland Islands) · sv shetländare (person from the Shetland Islands) · gv Sheltynagh (person from the Shetland Islands) · fr Shetlandaise (person from the Shetland Islands) · nb shetlender (person from the Shetland Islands) · nn shetlending (person from the Shetland Islands) · de Shetländer (person from the Shetland Islands) · fo hetlendingur (person from the Shetland Islands) · sk Shetlanďanka (person from the Shetland Islands) · pl Szetlandczyk (person from the Shetland Islands) · sv shetlänning (person from the Shetland Islands) · ru шетла́ндец (person from the Shetland Islands)