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Poland

po·land

UK/ˈpəʊ.lənd/ US/ˈpoɫ.ənd/ fairly common

noun

1.

a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II

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From Pole + land, a phono-semantic matching of German Polen (“Poland”), from Old Polish Polanie (“Poles”, literally “field dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *poľane, plural of *poľaninъ (“field dweller”), from *poľe (“field”) + *-ěninъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).

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