Gotland
/ˈɡɒtlənd/noun
An island in the Baltic Sea belonging to Sweden.
Did you know?Gotland is named for the Gutes, an old North Germanic people whose name survives in the island’s identity, not in any magical sense but as a rare living trace of early Scandinavian ethnonyms.
Etymological Timeline
Old Norse
ON
Gutarland
“land of the Gutes”
Old Norse
ON
Gotland
“land of the Gutes”
Middle Low German
MLG
Gotland
“Gotland”
Middle English
ME
Gotland
“the Baltic island of Gotland”
Modern English
English
Gotland
“the Swedish island of Gotland”