English Explanatory Dictionary

Cajanaburg

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Former name of Kajaani (“a town in Finland”).

Word forms

Cajanaburg

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.

Related words

Cajania
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on C Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary