Estonian

[e-stoh-nee-uhn]

Es·to·ni·an

[e-stoh-nee-uhn]
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to Estonia or its people.
noun
2.
a member of a Finnish people inhabiting Estonia, Livonia, and other districts of Russia.
3.
the Uralic language of Estonia, very closely related to Finnish.

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Estonian is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.


Origin:
1785–95; Estoni(a) + -an
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Estonian or Esthonian (ɛˈstəʊnɪən, ɛˈsθəʊ-)
 
adj
1.  of, relating to, or characteristic of Estonia, its people, or their language
 
n
2.  the official language of Estonia: belongs to the Finno-Ugric family
3.  a native or inhabitant of Estonia
 
Esthonian or Esthonian
 
adj
 
n

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