"Land of the Finns", from the Swedish spelling, first attested in runestones in Old Norse in present-day Sweden. Early mentions of the Fenni in Tacitus's first-century Germania and the Phinnoi () in Ptolemy's second-century Geography are today thought to refer to the modern Sami people. The etymology of "Finn" is uncertain: it may derive from Germanic translations of the Finnish suo ("fen") or from the proposed Proto-Germanic *finne "wanderers", "hunting-folk".Svensk Etymologisk Ordbok. Suomi, the endonym and exonym in some other Finnic and Baltic languages: Uncertain etymology. Possibly derived from the proposed proto-Balto-Slavic *zeme "land".Grünthal, Riho. "The Finnic Ethnonyms". Finno-Ugrian Society. or from the Finnish suomaa ("fen land").
"Land of the Finns" from the Swedish spelling first attested in runestones in Old Norse in present-day Sweden Early mentions of the Fenni in Tacitus's first-century Germania and the Phinnoi () in Ptolemy's second-century Geography are today thought to refer to the modern Sami people The etymology of "Finn" is uncertain it may derive from Germanic translations of the Finnish suo ("fen") or from the proposed Proto-Germanic *finne "wanderers" "hunting-folk"Svensk Etymologisk Ordbok Suomi the endonym and exonym in some other Finnic and Baltic languages Uncertain etymology Possibly derived from the proposed proto-Balto-Slavic *zeme "land"Grünthal Riho "The Finnic Ethnonyms" Finno-Ugrian Society or from the Finnish suomaa ("fen land")