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Suomi en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈswɔːmɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈswɔmi/ (General-American)

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish Suomi.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A freeform variation of psytrance music said to originate in Finland, where it is called suomisaundi.
  2. (plural, plural-only) The Finns.
    • 1963, Francis Peabody Magoun Jr. (trans.), The Kalevala: Or, Poems of the Kaleva District the original homeland of the Suomi tribe (suomalaiset).
    • 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. 1893 Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, translation of the third edition by Z.A. Ragozin, page 69
    • the mythology of the Finnic peoples (the Suomi and Karelians) 1987, Gabriel Weisberg & Laurinda Dixon, The Documented Image, page 191
    • 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.

Deriveds

Suomic

Suomi en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈswɔːmɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈswɔmi/ (General-American)

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish Suomi.

Meanings

  1. Finland (a country in Northern Europe).
  2. The Finnish language.
    • 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. 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
    • "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." 2011, John O'Neill and Steve Johansson, "Ladies and the Vamps", Knights of the Dinner Table: The Java Joint, page 32
    • Suomi occupies the greater part of Finland 1877, Abel Hovelacque, The Science of Language, page 90
  3. A surname from Finnish.
    • What Suomi has that Harlow did not have is technology. 2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2015: