Cajanaburg
English
Etymology
From Swedish Kajaneborg, from Kajana (“Kainuu”) + borg (“-burg: town”), probably from Russian каяний (kajanij) and каянский (kajanskij) and cognate with Finnish Kainuu and Old Norse Old Norse kvenir. Equivalent to Cajania + -burg.
Proper noun
Cajanaburg
- (historical) Former name of Kajaani, a town in Finland.
- 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 7:
- CAJANABURG, the capital of the province of Cajania, or eaſt Bothnia in Sweden, ſituated on the north-eaſt part of the lake Cajania, about three hundred miles north-eaſt of Abo...
- 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 7:
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