Skandināvija

See also: Skandinavija and Skandināvijā

Latvian

Skandināvija on Latvian Wikipedia

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin Scandināvia, a borrowing from some Nordic/North Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō (“Scania”), from *awjō (“island”).

See also Old English Scedenig, Old Norse Skáney (“southern tip of Sweden”); also Old English ī(e)g (“island”), Old Norse ey, Danish ø, Swedish ö (“island”)), adapted to follow Latvian patterns (suffix -ija)

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Skandināvija f (4th declension)

(geographically) the Scandinavian peninsula (Norway, Sweden and parts of northern Finland
Skandināvijas pussala ― Scandinavian peninsula
(politically, culturally) Norway, Sweden and Denmark, sometimes also Finland and Iceland; the main Nordic countries
Skandināvija ir vēsturisks un ģeogrāfisks Ziemeļeiropas reģions ― Scandinavia is a historical and geographic region of Northern Europe

Declension of Skandināvija (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	Skandināvija	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	Skandināvijas	—
dative (datīvs)	Skandināvijai	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	Skandināviju	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	Skandināviju	—
locative (lokatīvs)	Skandināvijā	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	Skandināvija	—