Newfoundland
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English new found lande (in a letter, apparently written in 1499, from Henry VII of England to his lord chancellor, Cardinal John Morton, about the North American land explored by Sebastian and John Cabot, a likely location being Newfoundland, or the name later being specifically narrowed down to it),[1] equivalent to newfound + land.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnjuːˌfaʊnd.lənd/, /ˈnjuː.fənd.lənd/, /ˌnjuːˈfaʊnd.lənd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnuˌfaʊnd.lənd/, /ˈnu.fənd.lənd/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈn(j)u.fənd.lənd/, /ˌn(j)u.fəndˈlænd/
- In all accents, /lænd/ is possible instead of the reduced /lənd/.
Proper noun
[edit]Newfoundland
- A large island off the coast of eastern Canada, which, along with Labrador, has composed the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador since 1949, and the Dominion of Newfoundland, before it.
- (historical) Former name of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- (informal) Ellipsis of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- (historical) Ellipsis of Dominion of Newfoundland. A former country in North America
- (historical) Ellipsis of Colony of Newfoundland. A former colony of North America, of British North America, British Empire, United Kingdom
Synonyms
[edit]island
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Translations
[edit]Island off the coast of Eastern Canada
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Noun
[edit]Newfoundland (plural Newfoundlands)
- A very large breed of working dog from Newfoundland, with a shaggy, usually black coat, known for its water rescue ability, strength, and gentle disposition.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 311:
- The younger, a frank, bold, bright-eyed child, was mounted on a large Newfoundland dog, whose impatience the elder brother was trying to soothe.
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[edit]dog
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References
[edit]- ^ Evan T. Jones (2013) “Bristol, Cabot and the New Found Land, 1496–1500”, in Peter Edward Pope and Shannon Lewis-Simpson, editors, Exploring Atlantic Transitions: Archaeologies of Transience and Permanence in New Found Lands (The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology; monograph 8), The Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 28:
- Of these documents, the most important was a letter, apparently written in 1499, from Henry VII to his lord chancellor, Cardinal John Morton. This letter instructed the lord chancellor to suspend legal proceedings against William Weston of Bristol, on the grounds that it was the king’s intention that Weston would ‘shortly with God’s grace pass and sail for to search and find if he can the new found lande’. Since the letter seems to post-date Cabot’s voyages, but cannot be later than 12 March 1500, it would appear to be a reference to a previously unknown voyage, led by a merchant not known to be associated with the Bristol expeditions. The document is of interest, moreover, both because it is the first to employ the term ‘new found land’ and because it serves to endorse one of Ruddock’s key claims – that William Weston of Bristol led an independent expedition to the New World in 1499.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English Newfoundland.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Newfoundland
- Newfoundland (island)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of Newfoundland (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Newfoundland | — | |
| genitive | Newfoundlandin | — | |
| partitive | Newfoundlandia | — | |
| illative | Newfoundlandiin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Newfoundland | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Newfoundland | — |
| gen. | Newfoundlandin | ||
| genitive | Newfoundlandin | — | |
| partitive | Newfoundlandia | — | |
| inessive | Newfoundlandissa | — | |
| elative | Newfoundlandista | — | |
| illative | Newfoundlandiin | — | |
| adessive | Newfoundlandilla | — | |
| ablative | Newfoundlandilta | — | |
| allative | Newfoundlandille | — | |
| essive | Newfoundlandina | — | |
| translative | Newfoundlandiksi | — | |
| abessive | Newfoundlanditta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Newfoundland
- Newfoundland (large Canadian island)
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[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Newfoundland
- Newfoundland (large Canadian island)
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