Danish, like baker ("baker") to bag is and mik ("me") to mig. This was due to a linguistic sound change. 17th-century spellings include Swerghe, Swirghe, Swirge. Much is made about the difference between the medieval forms Svearike and Sverige. Medieval Swedes, though, were unlikely to see it as anything else but a matter of pronunciation. Names in Finnic languages A naming that stems from a completely different root is the one used in some Finnic languages, in Finnish Ruotsi, in Estonian Rootsi, in Northern Sami Ruoŧŧa, probably derived from various uses of rōþs-, i.e., "related to rowing" in Old Swedish, cf. Rus, probably through the old name of the coast of North Svealand, Roslagen, and to the fact that before sailboats were established in the Baltic Sea, row boats were used to traverse it. Names in other languages The name of Sweden was Latinized as Suecia adopted in various Romance and Slavic languages, including Spanish Suecia, Catalan Suècia, Portuguese Suécia, Bulgarian Shvetsiya, and in non-European languages influenced by such languages, In these languages, there is frequent confusion between the names of Sweden and of Switzerland (Spanish Suiza, Catalan Suïssa, Portuguese Suíça, Bulgarian Shveytsariya). There is a historical tradition going back to at least the 15th century to the effect that Schwyz (the settlement which gave its name to Switzerland) was indeed named after the Swedes. Ericus Olai in his Chronica regni Gothorum () notes the similarity in toponymy, Swycia, quasi Suecia. This tradition was taken seriously in 19th-century scholarly reception of the Swiss Swedish origin legend, especially in Swedish romantic nationalism (e.g. Erik Gustaf Geijer's 1836 History of the Swedes), but is now considered unlikely. Chinese uses to represent a phonetic approximation of the name (Old Mandarin Shuì Diǎn, Modern Manderin Ruì Diǎn, Cantonese Seoi6Din2, while the modern mandarin pronunciation only appeared 100 years ago.). Also in China, there has been frequent confusion with the name of Switzerland (Cantonese beginning with the same character ruì (meaning "auspicious"), to the point where the Swiss and Swedish consulates in Shanghai launched a campaign to help Chinese tourists distinguish between the two countries in 2013. In Arabic, the name is rendered as Suwayd , the pertaining adjective being suwaydī "Swedish", which happens to form a homonym with a pre-existing Arabic name Suwayd "black, dark, swarthy" (c.f. Sudan) and the nisba pre-existing in various parts of the Arab world (such as Riyadh's as-Suwaidi district).