Talk:Name of Sweden

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Etymology[edit]

Latin 'Suetidi' and Lithuanian 'Sueitidiai' meaning the people who comes together and the land is 'Sueiva' (feminin form) or 'Sueivonys' (masculin form) meaning the land where various people (mostly Vikings) collects. As well as Scandinavia in Lithuanian language means the shore where ships/boats sink ('Skandina' in Lithuanian means 'makes to sink' and the ending -via or -va denotes the land or the place where it is happening).

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This article is confusing and self-contradictory (is Sweden originally a plural form of Swede or "borrowed from Dutch Zweden, which is probably the dative case of Zwede"?) and should be completely rewritten. Languagehat (talk) 18:21, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Original research[edit]

I removed this

A hypothesis due to  [[Ivar Modéer]]{{year needed|date=May 2015}} and  popularized by [[Jan Guillou]] proposes that the form ''Svearige'' is a loan from Danish with different connotations than the native ''Sverige''.{{clarify|date=May 2015}}{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}

because the tags are five years old, and no references have been added in that time. This sentence reads to me like "original research." If it is true that Modéer published such a hypothesis, a reference to its publication in a "reliable" source must be given.

Please do not put this back into the article without such a reference. Nick Beeson (talk) 12:43, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]