Complete Definition of "Greenland"

Image:Greenland big.png|thumb|right|200 px|Greenland.
English
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Etymology
green + land (The origin of the "green" in "Greenland" is disputed; Icelandic saga says that the island was so named by w:Eric the Red|Eric the Red to make the island sound more pleasant than it was in order to lure potential settlers away from Iceland, or that it was much greener in his day; it is also said that his family came from Grønland in Norway, and that he had traveled from a poor, black-stoned field in his homeland to large green meadows in Greenland)

Proper noun
Greenland

  1. A self-governing island that is a territory of Denmark.

Derived terms
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Greenland dove
Greenlander
Greenland falcon
Greenland gerfalcon
Greenlandic
Greenlandish
Greenlandite
Greenlandman
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Greenland poppy
Greenland right whale
w:Greenland Sea|Greenland Sea
Greenland seal
Greenland spar
Greenland turtle
Greenland whale

Translations

Bosnian: Grinland m
Breton: Greunland
Bulgarian: ��енланди�
Czech: Grónsko n
Chinese: 格�� (Gélínglán)
Danish: Grønland
Dutch: Groenland
Esperanto: Groenlando
Estonian: Gröönimaa
Finnish: Grönlanti
French: Groenland m
German: Grönland n
Greek: ��οιλανδία f
Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat
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Hebrew: �ר�נ�נ� (grinland)
Hungarian: Grönland
Icelandic: Grænland n
Italian: Groenlandia f
Japanese: ������� (guriinrando)
Maltese: Greenland, Grinlend
Polish: Grenlandia
Portuguese: Groenlândia f
Romanian: Groenlanda f
Russian: ��енланди� f
Slovene: Grenlandija f
Spanish: Groenlandia f
Swedish: Grönland#Swedish|Grönland n
Turkish: Grönland

Category:Islands

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