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	Etymology of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sweden was originally a plural form of Swede and is a so-called "back-formation", from Old English Sweoðeod, which meant "people of the Swedes" (Old Norse Svíþjóð, Latin Suetidi).
		As the name for the country itself, Sweden is borrowed from Dutch Zweden, which is probably the dative case of Zwede.
		In Sweden, the form Swerike is attested from the end of the 13th century, Svearike, from the 14th century, as well as the Icelandic Svíaríki and the Old Gutnish Suiariki.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Etymology_of_Sweden (378 words)

	Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the south of Sweden leaf-bearing trees are prolific, in the north pines, spruces and hardy birches dominate the landscape.
		Sweden was also known to be the first western nation to detect unusually high radiation levels in the atmosphere, which later was confirmed to have been the residual nuclear fallout from the Chernobyl accident.
		Sweden is known for having an even distribution of income, with a Gini coefficient at 0.21 in 2001 (one of the most even income distributions in the industrialized world).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sweden (5760 words)

	The Viking Age - Ansgar, The Apostle Of Sweden
		Sweden possessed in those days a large territory south of the Baltic, which paid scat to the king of Upsala.
		He was himself surprised by death while in Sweden, and buried in the town of Birka, in 936.
		In Sweden, trouble was brewing against the king, who had broken faith with his people, and in order to avoid open revolt King Olof was forced to divide his power with one of his sons, who, although yet a minor, was solemnly elected king.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles35/history-of-sweden-3.shtml (5287 words)

	Articles - Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sweden left the union in the beginning of the 16th century, and more or less constantly battled its neighbours for many years, especially Russia and the still united Denmark-Norway, which never really accepted Sweden leaving the union.
		Sweden was one of the poorest countries in Europe in the 19th century, shaped by heavy alcohol consumption, until improved transportation and communication allowed it to utilize natural assets from different parts of the country, most notably timber and iron ore, which allowed the creation of a welfare state in the early 20th century.
		SwedenÂ´s contribution to the Allies, and the humanitarian contributions, are often overlooked in the shadow of the concessions to the Nazis.
	www.landize.com /articles/Sweden (4952 words)

	Sweden
		The Swedish Empire in 1658 (orange) overlaid by present day Sweden (red).
		Sweden remained neutral during World War I and World War II, although its neutrality during World War II has been disputed, as it made concessions to both sides during the war.
		An additional group that has a strong say based on tradition is the indigenous Sami people, living in northern Sweden and amounting to circa 17,000.
	www.cooldictionary.com /words/Sweden.wikipedia (2595 words)

	Infromation about Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As a result of their intense propaganda, it is often claimed that alcohol consumption was unusually high in Sweden at this timeandlt;refandgt;For instance expressed thus: As regards social evils generally, however, the low, though undoubtedly improving, standard of Sweden has had one of its chief reasons in the national intemperance.
		Sweden has a history of strong political involvement by ordinary people through its andquot;popular movementsandquot; (FolkrÃ¶relser in Swedish), the most notable being trade unions, the women's movement, the temperance movement, and -- more recently -- sports movement.
		Today about 78% of Swedes belong to the Church of Sweden, but the number is decreasing by about one percent every year, and Church of Sweden services are sparsely attended (hovering in the single digit percentages of the population)andlt;refandgt;http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/ Church of Sweden, http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/statistik/pdf/medlemmar.pdf Members 1978-2004, PDF document in Swedishandlt;/refandgt;.
	english.turkcebilgi.com /Sweden (5685 words)

	tBlog - Sweden
		The Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige (help·info)) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe.
		Sweden has a low population density except in its metropolitan areas, with most of the inland consisting of forests and mountainous wilderness.
		Sweden was one of the poorest countries in Europe in the 19th century, shaped by heavy alcohol consumption[1], until improved transportation and communication allowed it to utilize natural assets from different parts of the country, most notably timber and iron ore, which allowed the creation of a welfare state in the early 20th century.
	adfunk.tblog.com /post/1969884562 (5541 words)

	Klevius' human rights and interdisciplinary news
		Some Islam etymology: Islam originally meant an Arabic male desert warrior/robberer/rapeist (pre-Islamic Arab nomads' ultra-sexism is wellknown among historians), and Allah was one oout of 360 pre-Islamic gods (see Klevius Definition of religion and Klevius Vagina gate in the atom of kinship).
		Sweden's secretary of state (social democrat Laila Freiwald) after having ordered the shutdown of an other party's webpage: "I was confused, I had no idea we had shut down any homepage".
		Clear legislation protecting negative human rights needs to be passed by all Governments and the UN, to balance the right to freedom of Islamic preaching with the rights of individuals and communities that their sacred beliefs in freedom and non-religious human rights should not be insulted, threatened and desecrated.
	kleviusnews.blogspot.com (5147 words)

	Sweden History Facts & Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Sweden History Timeline & Facts is full of interesting facts and information about the bygone times of the Sweden Nation.
		The Sweden History Timeline & Facts outlines and records all of the critical and major incidents in the history of the nation.
		Sweden rejects a request from Germany to use its territory as a transit route for troops
	www.facts-about.org.uk /history-and-events-timeline-sweden.htm (332 words)

	Questions & Answers, Greek Mythology Link.
		One reason is that etymology is, on the whole, a difficult branch of linguistic science and relatively seldom comes up with absolutely reliable answers.
		Etymologies are in many cases uncertain (this includes the popular etymology of Oedipus as "swollen-foot"), since many names in Greek myths are not Greek but stem from one or more pre-Greek languages, unknown to us.
		Another thing is that poets and writers, both in antiquity and later, have tried to construct etymologies that suit the stories, but such constructions, although in some cases aesthetically impressive, seldom have any linguistic basis [Prof.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/QuestionsAnswers.html (12325 words)

	Family name etymology
		This is a collection of family name etymologies.
		Swedish-American surname from New Sweden taken by a settler from Ramberget (Raven's Hill) near Gothenburg.
		Jews who registered as inspectors with the Russian or Ukraine governments received a favored status with respect to travel, although those who collected taxes were generally resented in the stetls (Jewish ghettos).
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/f/fa/family_name_etymology.html (184 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		O.E.D. "Oxford English Dictionary," the principal source for modern English etymologies, begun in 1879 (as the "New English Dictionary"); a second edition was published in the 1980s and the work is ongoing.
		O.N. Old Norse, the Norwegian language as written and spoken c.100 to 1500 C.E., the relevant phase of it being "Viking Norse" (700-1100), the language spoken by the invaders and colonizers of northern and eastern England c.875-950.
		This was before the rapid divergence of West Norse (Norway and the colonies) and East Norse (Denmark and Sweden), so the language of the vikings in England was essentially the same, whether they came from Denmark or from Norway.
	dan.moneeek.com /content/ref/etymology (3528 words)

	Take Our Word For It Archives A-D
		The etymology of cancel is rooted in the etymology of chancellor.
		As an example of how we can determine the meanings of words using etymology, I'll briefly state that the root melano- means `fl' in Greek, so I assume that the Drosophila melanogaster possesses a fl gaster, which is the enlarged part of the abdomen behind the pedicel in hymenopterous insects.
		Though some believe that the term buck for an American dollar originated from the use of silver dollars for bucks `markers used in poker,' others believe that the term buck `dollar' originated due to the fact that buckskins were used in trade, as a form of money, in early America.
	www.takeourword.com /arc_logi.html (10170 words)

	Converted WP file 1viera
		The word's etymology is unclear, but the root "stri" may derive from the Slavic "stru" (to flow).
		The etymology of his name is Iranian again, and it appears to be cognate to Iranian "khvar", and the modern Persian "Khorsid", both meaning the Sun.
		Above all, Sweden did not exist as such by then, and on its territory there were a number of independent supra-tribal political units.
	www.ibiblio.org /sergei/Zaroff (12336 words)

	The Stepien's
		etymology of the name Stepien, then I will successively review the various countries where I was able to locate people with the name Stepien.
		Many Polish surnames are derived from the names of cities or villages of origin of their most prominent bearers.
		Some early settlers are mentioned in the etymology and early references section.
	www.geocities.com /terenia.geo/stepien.html (3252 words)

	Etymology Of Viking and Varangian
		Exploration of the etymology of Viking reveals another, related word, Varangian.
		Linguist Fritz Askeberg states that "the masculine noun Vikingr was used only in Denmark and the West Norse area (in eastern Scandinavia the word was væringi.)" Væringi bears a resemblance to Varangian, which will be discussed later in this section.
		This paper can also be seen in The Viking Times Magazine, Östhammar Sweden.
	eeliag.netwiz.net /etm.html (1586 words)

	Bishop at Caribbean Topfunwebsites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The etymology of the word ''bishop'' comes from the Greek language word ''episkopos'' (επισκοπος), which can be generally translated as ''overseer'', ''superintendent'' or ''foreman''.
		Methodist bishops do claim a type of theological apostolic succession through John Wesley, though Wesley himself was never consecrated a Bishop.
		Lutheran bishops do not claim apostolic succession, except in the Church of Sweden and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.
	www.topfunwebsites.com /grenada/bishop.html (2764 words)

	Etymologically Speaking...
		This term, which comes from the French abricot--and was aubercot until the Fifteenth Century--does not have one simple etymology, but rather a combination of several, involving a considerable juxtaposition of ideas.
		The OED summarizes this original sense best, "The `fifth essence' of ancient and medieval philosophy, supposed to be the substance of which the heavenly bodies were composed, and to be actually latent in all things, the extraction of it by distillation or other methods being one of the great objects of alchemy."
		Gants de Suede is French for "gloves of Sweden." It was in Sweden that the first leather was buffed to a fine softness, and the French bought the gants de Suede.
	www.westegg.com /etymology (10416 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		of cædere "to cut." But if this is the etymology of the name, it was likely an ancestor who was so born (Caesar's mother lived to see his triumphs and such operations were always fatal to the woman in ancient times).
		And Pliny derives his cognomen from cæsaries "hair," since the future dictator was born with a full head of it.
		Over the years it was a unit of currency of varying value in Holland, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Venice, etc. Remained popular in slang for "money" or "ticket" from its prominence in "The Merchant of Venice."
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=legend&searchmode=phrase (2503 words)

	LWN: Use of "Lindows" name blocked in Sweden
		a press release entitled "Microsoft blocks distribution of desktop Linux in Sweden." What has really happened, of course, is that Microsoft has succeeded in a trademark challenge against the "Lindows" name in that country.
		Except that Sweden is a Scandinavian country, and as I understand it, "window" is derived from the scandinavian...
		The Norwegian word is "vindu" with the etymology you describe.
	lwn.net /Articles/62653 (2169 words)

	languagehat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I contend that these should be translated with their English cognates: labyrinthine, crypts, melancholy, and Chimeras, not, as one translator does, with maze, vaults, wistful, and fantasies.
		I don't blame the people who compiled the list, who are simply enthusiastic amateurs who love words and had no means of judging the validity of the etymologies they ran across, but it's depressing to think this is what people looking for information online will find and cite.
		Here is a much more reliable list: only one word per language, but at least you can be pretty sure that word is correctly listed.
	languagehat.blogspot.com /2003_01_19_languagehat_archive.html (2024 words)

	Beliefnet.com
		On the Ásatrú board there are several Scandinavians I believe and they could probably tell you alot more.
		I know that there are several towns called Asby in Sweden but there is also towns (a parish?) in England known as Great Asby, Little Asby, and something else similar.
		Oh and apparently Asby comes from "town located at a grove of ash trees" in Swedish.
	www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?boardID=3748&discussionID=377602 (302 words)

	15 Phosphorus
		Brand sold his secret to the German physician Johannes Daniel Krafft, who showed off the new wonder substance around the courts of Europe.
		The secret that it was made from urine leaked out and first Johann Kunckel von Löwenstern (1630 or '38-1703) in Sweden (1678) and later Robert Boyle (1627-1691) in London (1680) also managed to make Phosphorus.
		Boyle's assistant, Ambrose Godfrey Hanckwitz, developed the process on a commercial scale, improved it, and exported Phosphorus to the continent.
	www.vanderkrogt.net /elements/elem/p.html (626 words)

	Last Name Origins Meaning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although the nickname-turned-surname may explain the red hair many in the family share, the place-name surname may lead us to the geographic origin of our ancestors.
		Many books are published regarding the etymologies and origins of surnames.
		The importance of a surname in ethnic origin research is that it may give us a place to begin our research overseas if we have not been able to find any other indication of place of origin using American records.
	www.last-names.net /Articles/Anatomy.asp (1428 words)

	Articles / Impact / Noah and Human Etymology - Institute for Creation Research
		* The Author: Bengt Sage is an Australian businessman whose avocation is the study of languages and etymology.
		He was born in Sweden and, in his younger days, traveled to every continent in the merchant navy.
		He received a diploma in Bible through correspondence studies in the Spanish language, and became committed to creationism as a result of reading The Bible and Modern Science in its Spanish translation.
	www.icr.org /index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=166 (1783 words)

	Viking Answer Lady Webpage - Alcoholic Beverages and Drinking Customs of the Viking Age
		Some scholars have theorized that the term was a borrowing of Latin symbola, itself from Greek sumbolh "collection for a meal." However, this term appears throughout Germanic cultures from a very early date, which would argue against its origins as a loan-word.
		Another possible etymology is a derivation from proto-Germanic sum- or sam- ("gathering together") and *alu ("ale").
		Using this etymology, sumbel would literally mean "an ale-gathering" (Bauschatz, p 76).
	www.vikinganswerlady.com /drink.shtml (5892 words)

	Swedish language - Etymology books, find the lowest prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		You may browse this category by title or by publication date.
		by Sweden, Harry Stahl, Ortnamnsarkivet i Uppsala (Sweden), Joran Sahlgren
		Studier over Sormlandska Sjonamn : Etymologi, Namnbildning Och Formutveckling
	www.allbookstores.com /Swedish_Language-Etymology_p3st.html (94 words)

	What's In a Name? -- The Guide to Harry Potter Name Etymology
		According to Kate C. Rowling says that it "seemed to suit the headmaster, because one of his passions is music and I imagined him walking around humming to himself."
		Durmstrang - another European wizarding school, probably in Norway, Finland, Sweden, or the European part of Russia.
		I'm not sure about Britain, but in the U.S., "zonked out" can be slang for the condition of physical or mental exhaustion.
	www.theninemuses.net /hp/4.html (6030 words)

	Noblesse Oblige » Sadaamists hiding in Sweden
		Posted in Science, Politics, Military at 7:04 am by Thanos
		One of Sadaam Hussein’s cousins is currently seeking asylum in Sweden, see the article here.
		In other other interesting developments Raytheon and Bofors have created a new GPS guided artillery shell which is now deployed in Iraq.
	noblesseoblige.org /wordpress/?p=130 (127 words)

	Previous Columns/Posted 07/29/99
		According to Carlsen, "thorpe" was chosen because at the time MacPherson was involved in a campaign pressing for the return of legendary athlete Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals from Sweden.
		I must admit that I have absolutely no idea what Thorpe's medals were doing in Sweden in the first place, but I have a funny feeling that my readers are about to explain it to me.
		Take me back to the main Word Detective page.
	www.word-detective.com /072999.html (5318 words)

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