Grenland

• Greland, Græland, Grøland (1300-1400s)

From Old Norse Grenland, from the stem of *grenir m pl +‎ land. The Grenir were the old tribe that would inhabit the area around the lake Norsjø, probably described by Jordanes as Granniī.

• IPA^(key): /¹ɡrɛnlan(d)/

Grenland n

1. A district of Southern Telemark, Norway

• grener
• Grenmar (“old name of the Langesundsfjord”)

• Jørn Sandnes, Ola Stemshaug (1997) Norsk stadnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) “Grenland”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ɡrěnland/
• Hyphenation: Gren‧land

Grènland m (Cyrillic spelling Грѐнланд)

1. Greenland (a large self-governing island and dependent territory of Denmark, in North America)