Aino
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Aino pl (plural only)
- Alternative form of Ainu (“an ethnic group of Japan”)
Proper noun
[edit]Aino
- Alternative form of Ainu (“a language”)
Anagrams
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Aino
- a female given name from Finnish
Usage notes
[edit]- Popular in the 1930s.
Related terms
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From aino, a poetic variant of ainoa (“only, sole”), also in the sense “unique”. The name was coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot, the editor of the Kalevala, for its second edition (1849) by capitalizing the aino in phrases like aino tytti (“the only girl”) of the first edition (1835). It began to gain popularity as a given name a decade or two later.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Aino
- A heroine in the Kalevala.
- 1849, Eino Friberg, 1988, transl., Kalevala, 3:517-522::
- Tuot’ itken tämän ikäni, / Puhki polveni murehin: / Annoin Aino siskoseni, / Lupasin emoni lapsen / Väinämöiselle varaksi, / Laulajalle puolisoksi, /
- This is why I'll weep forever, / What I'll mourn throughout my lifetime: / That I gave my sister Aino, / Even pledged my mother's child / To Väinämöinen as a helpmate, / And provider for the singer, /
- a female given name from Finnish
- 1959, Väinö Linna, Täällä Pohjantähden alla 1, WSOY 1965, page 159:
- Muu väki oikeastaan pitikin välittömästä Ilmarista. Aino-neiti sen sijaan olikin jo lapsena hillitty. Lapset olivat todella saaneet suomalaiset nimet, vieläpä Kalevalasta. Tyttöä sanottiin kuitenkin Aniksi.
- The rest of the people liked the natural character of Ilmari. Miss Aino on the other hand had been reserved since childhood. The names were very Finnish, straight from the Kalevala. The girl was often called Ani, however.
- 2017, Roope Lipasti, Ruotsinlaiva, Atena, →ISBN, page 27:
- Aino oli nimensä mukaisesti ainoa lapsi.
- As Aino's name suggested, she was the only child.
Usage notes
[edit]- The most popular first name for women born in Finland in 1916-1927 and again in 2006 and 2020.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of Aino (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Aino | Ainot | |
| genitive | Ainon | Ainojen | |
| partitive | Ainoa | Ainoja | |
| illative | Ainoon | Ainoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Aino | Ainot | |
| accusative | nom. | Aino | Ainot |
| gen. | Ainon | ||
| genitive | Ainon | Ainojen | |
| partitive | Ainoa | Ainoja | |
| inessive | Ainossa | Ainoissa | |
| elative | Ainosta | Ainoista | |
| illative | Ainoon | Ainoihin | |
| adessive | Ainolla | Ainoilla | |
| ablative | Ainolta | Ainoilta | |
| allative | Ainolle | Ainoille | |
| essive | Ainona | Ainoina | |
| translative | Ainoksi | Ainoiksi | |
| abessive | Ainotta | Ainoitta | |
| instructive | — | Ainoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Aino is the 21st most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 20,465 female individuals (and as a middle name to 16,098 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English pluralia tantum
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- Estonian terms borrowed from Finnish
- Estonian terms derived from Finnish
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian female given names
- Estonian female given names from Finnish
- Finnish terms coined by Elias Lönnrot
- Finnish coinages
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑino
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑino/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish female given names from Finnish
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- fi:Finnic mythology
