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   Characters in the Moomin series

   The original Swedish word 'mymla' was a slang word used in Tove Jansson's circle, with the meaning "to love". ... The Swedish word means rock hyrax.
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   Sweden

   This word is derived from Sweon/Sweonas (Old Norse Sviar, Latin Suiones). ... The primary language of Sweden is Swedish, a North Germanic language, related and very similar to Danish and Norwegian, but differing in pronunciation and orthography.
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   Swedish language

   Swedish is the primary language in Sweden. ... | Du har tappat ditt ord och din papperslapp, | You've lost your word and your written note, |
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   List of company name etymologies

   Mitsubishi – the name Mitsubishi (三菱) has two parts: mitsu means three and hishi (changing to bishi in the middle of the word) means diamond (the shape). ... SAAB – founded in 1937 in Sweden as Svenska Aeroplan aktiebolaget (Swedish Aeroplane Company); the last word is typically abbreviated as AB, hence SAAB.
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   Linguistic issues concerning the euro

   The word means 'minute' (literally "thin"), the same as the unit of measurement of time or of angle. ... In Sweden there are no widespread slang terms since the euro is a foreign currency.
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   Finnish language

   Meänkieli is a northern dialect entirely intelligible to speakers of any other Finnish dialect, which achieved its status as an official minority language in Sweden for historical and political reasons regardless of the fact that Finnish is an official minority language in Sweden, too. ... Vowel harmony is a redundancy feature, which means that the feature [±back] is uniform within a word, and so it is necessary to interpret it only once for a given word.
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   Placeholder name

   Tal when used with another word means "something". ... Medel is Swedish for medium or average, while Svensson is a common Swedish surname, which is often used to express genericness or mundaneness.
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   Origin of the Romanians

   “Ard” as an Indo-European root-word means “hill, forested heights, mountain” and appears in hundreds of geographic locations, all sharing these topographic characteristics. ... ↑ Sven Birger Fredrik Jansson, Peter Foote, Bengt A. Lundberg, Runes in Sweden Gidlunds, 1987, p.63, ISBN 917844067X, 9789178440672
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   IKEA

   Because IKEA is a worldwide company working in several countries with several different languages, sometimes the Nordic naming leads to problems where the word means something completely different to the product. ... Companies of Sweden
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    Finland Swedes

    They speak distinct dialects and a standard language that are both called Finland Swedish and are mutually intelligible with the dialects spoken in Sweden, as well as with other Scandinavian languages. ... Many Finns and Swedes are unaware that the English word "Finn" usually means "a native or inhabitant of Finland" (, , ) and only sometimes also has the meaning "a member of a people speaking Finnish or a Finnic language" or has this as its primary but not exclusive meaning. More specifically, due to the extremely small number of immigrants in Finland, Finns still have a hard time understanding that the normal English expression for a naturalised Finnish citizen who immigrated from Vietnam, for example, is a Vietnamese Finn.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Characters in the Moomin series,
• Sweden,
• Swedish language,
• List of company name etymologies,
• Linguistic issues concerning the euro,
• Finnish language,
• Placeholder name,
• Origin of the Romanians,
• IKEA,
• Finland Swedes