English Explanatory Dictionary

Nevanlinna

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Finnish.
  2. Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna.

Word forms

Nevanlinna

Etymology

Borrowing from Finnish Nevanlinna (from (genitive of) Neva + linna (“fortress”)); the Finnish name for a 17th-century Swedish fortress at the confluence of the Neva and Okhta Rivers, at the site of present-day Saint Petersburg, Russia. For more see Nyenschantz on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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