Irja
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See also: írja
Estonian[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Irja
- a female given name borrowed from Finnish Irja
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a medieval male given name, German Irg, a cognate of English George, revived from the place name Irjala for the heroine of a 1889 play by Gustaf von Numers.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Irja
- a female given name
- 1901, Väinö Kataja, “Irja”, in Irja: Tullikavaltajia, Karisto, published 1967, page 39:
- — Irja . . . Irja. Kuinka tuo nimi on minusta kaunis ja soma.
— Onko? Ja toiset sanovat sitä rumaksi. Tunnetteko ketään muuta Irja nimistä henkilöä?
— En ketään. Mutta olen aina ajatellut, että se on sievä nimi.- — Irja . . . Irja. How I think that name is beautiful and cute.
— Is it? Some others say it is ugly. Do you know anyone else named Irja?
— I do not. But I have always considered it a pretty name.
- — Irja . . . Irja. How I think that name is beautiful and cute.
- ?1939 Kauko Käyhkö, Irja (a song):
- Kerro mulle, Irja rakkahin,
- miksi silmäs täyttyi kyynelin.
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Irja (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Irja | Irjat | ||
genitive | Irjan | Irjojen | ||
partitive | Irjaa | Irjoja | ||
illative | Irjaan | Irjoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Irja | Irjat | ||
accusative | nom. | Irja | Irjat | |
gen. | Irjan | |||
genitive | Irjan | Irjojen Irjain rare | ||
partitive | Irjaa | Irjoja | ||
inessive | Irjassa | Irjoissa | ||
elative | Irjasta | Irjoista | ||
illative | Irjaan | Irjoihin | ||
adessive | Irjalla | Irjoilla | ||
ablative | Irjalta | Irjoilta | ||
allative | Irjalle | Irjoille | ||
essive | Irjana | Irjoina | ||
translative | Irjaksi | Irjoiksi | ||
abessive | Irjatta | Irjoitta | ||
instructive | — | Irjoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms[edit]
Statistics[edit]
- Irja is the 97th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 8,010 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,735 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams[edit]
Categories:
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian female given names
- Estonian terms derived from Finnish
- Finnish terms derived from German
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/irjɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/irjɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish kala-type nominals