Kalle
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Estonian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Swedish and Finnish Kalle. Also used as a diminutive of Kalev.
Proper noun[edit]
Kalle
- a male given name from Swedish
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Originally a pet form of Kaarle, Kaarlo; compare Swedish Kalle.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Kalle
- a male given name
- 1971, Kalle Päätalo, Huonemiehen poika, Gummerus, published 1981, →ISBN, pages 281–282:
- Jo yksistään Jokijärven ympärystän taloissa ja torpissa oli Kalle-nimisiä miehiä ja poikia täysi tusina, vaikka miespuolisia asukkaita kertyi kaikkiaankin vain sadan paikkeille. Meitä eivät jokijärveläiset, niin nimien muuntamisen mestareita kuin olivatkin, puhutelleet kuin kolmessa muodossa: Kalle, Kassu ja Kalakku.
- Just the houses and crofts around Jokijärvi had a dozen of men and boys named Kalle, even though there were just around a hundred of male residents in total. The people from Jokijärvi, despite their mastery in making up variants of names, only used three: Kalle, Kassu and Kalakku.
- A male nickname, a diminutive form of Kalevi, Kaarlo or Kalervo.
- The letter K in the Finnish spelling alphabet.
- (rare) a Finnish surname
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Kalle (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Kalle | Kallet | ||
genitive | Kallen | Kallejen | ||
partitive | Kallea | Kalleja | ||
illative | Kalleen | Kalleihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Kalle | Kallet | ||
accusative | nom. | Kalle | Kallet | |
gen. | Kallen | |||
genitive | Kallen | Kallejen Kallein rare | ||
partitive | Kallea | Kalleja | ||
inessive | Kallessa | Kalleissa | ||
elative | Kallesta | Kalleista | ||
illative | Kalleen | Kalleihin | ||
adessive | Kallella | Kalleilla | ||
ablative | Kallelta | Kalleilta | ||
allative | Kallelle | Kalleille | ||
essive | Kallena | Kalleina | ||
translative | Kalleksi | Kalleiksi | ||
abessive | Kalletta | Kalleitta | ||
instructive | — | Kallein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms[edit]
compounds
Statistics[edit]
- Kalle is the 63rd most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 11,189 male individuals (and as a middle name to 6,629 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Yiddish כּלה (kale, “bride”), from Hebrew כַּלָּה (kalá, “bride”).
Noun[edit]
Kalle f (genitive Kalle, plural Kallen)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Kalle [feminine]
Etymology 2[edit]
As a nickname probably a native variant of Karl. As an actual given name, however, reinforced by Swedish Kalle through Kalle Blomquist (Swedish Kalle Blomkvist, English Bill Bergson).
Proper noun[edit]
Kalle m (proper noun, strong, genitive Kalles)
- A male given name, predominantly a nickname for someone named Karl.
Further reading[edit]
- “Kalle” in Duden online
Limburgish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Nominalised form of kalle.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Kalle m
- (Eupen) conversation, chat
- Synonyms: Aïs, Disskorsch, Geschpriëk, Mulle
Old Swedish[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Kalle m
- diminutive of Karl
Declension[edit]
Singular | |
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Indefinite | |
Nominative | Kalle |
Accusative | Kalla |
Dative | Kalla |
Genitive | Kalla |
Descendants[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Kalle c (genitive Kalles)
- a diminutive of the male given name Karl
- a male given name based on the diminutive above
Interjection[edit]
Kalle
- The letter "K" in the Swedish spelling alphabet
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- Estonian terms borrowed from Swedish
- Estonian terms derived from Swedish
- Estonian terms borrowed from Finnish
- Estonian terms derived from Finnish
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian male given names
- Estonian male given names from Swedish
- Estonian male given names from Finnish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑlːe
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- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish terms with rare senses
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish nalle-type nominals
- German 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:German/alə
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- German terms derived from Yiddish
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