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Nevanlinna
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English
Etymology
Borrowing from en fi Nevanlinna (from (genitive of) fi Neva + fi linna fortress); the Finnish name for a 17th-century Swedish fortress at the confluence of the Neva and Okhta Rivers, at the site of present-day Saint Petersburg, Russia. For more see Nyenschantz
Proper noun
en Finnish.
en used attributively Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna.
Finnish
fi:
Etymology
fi Neva Nevan of (river) Neva linna castle, fortress gen
Pronunciation
nevan-linna
Proper noun
fi uncountable historical Nyenschantz, Nyen former Swedish fortress at the confluence of the Neva River and Okhta River, at a site now occupied by the Russian city of Saint Petersburg
fi Finnish
Declension
Nevanlinn a
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