Tavastia

Historical province of Tavastia, shown in green over the borders of current (2018) administrative regions of Finland.

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • (historical) province Sweden (country), now part of Finland.

Origin

  • Borrowed from Medieval Latin Tavastia, from East Scandinavian Old Norse Tafæistaland (attested in 11th century runestone Gs 13 as , transl. "", normalized "" 'in Tavastia'), from Tafæistr + land, the former probably being derived from tafʀ + Æistʀ.

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