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Greenland

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Wikipedia has an article on: Greenland

Etymology

green + land (The origin of the "green" in "Greenland" is disputed; Icelandic saga says that the island was so named by 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). Greenland was also called Gruntland ("Ground-land") and Engronelant (or Engroneland) on early maps. Whether green is an erroneous transcription of grunt ("ground"), which refers to shallow bays, or vice versa, is not known.

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Proper noun

Greenland

  1. A large self-governing island in North America that is politically a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Derived terms

  • Greenland dove
  • Greenlander
  • Greenland falcon
  • Greenland gerfalcon
  • Greenlandic
  • Greenlandish
  • Greenlandite
  • Greenlandman
  • Greenland poppy
  • Greenland right whale
  • Greenland Sea
  • Greenland seal
  • Greenland spar
  • Greenland turtle
  • Greenland whale

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