Ilmatar
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ilma (“air”) + -tar. The given name was adopted from the Kalevala in the 19th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ilmatar
- (Finnic mythology) An air spirit and the mother of Väinämöinen in the Kalevala.
- 1849 Kalevala (Translation 1988 by Eino Friberg) 1:107-112:
- Yksin syntyi Väinämöinen, / Ilmestyi ikirunoja / Kapehesta kantajasta, / Ilmattaresta emosta. / Olipa impi, ilman tyttö, / Kave luonnotar korea.
- Lonely born was Väinämöinen, / All alone, the poet immortal, / From the beautiful who bore him, / From his mother, Ilmatar. / She, the virgin of the air, / Beautiful maiden, Nature's girl, /
- 1849 Kalevala (Translation 1988 by Eino Friberg) 1:107-112:
- (rare as a first name) a female given name
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Ilmatar (Kotus type 32*C/sisar, tt-t gradation) | |||
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nominative | Ilmatar | Ilmattaret | |
genitive | Ilmattaren | Ilmattarien Ilmatarten | |
partitive | Ilmatarta | Ilmattaria | |
illative | Ilmattareen | Ilmattariin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Ilmatar | Ilmattaret | |
accusative | nom. | Ilmatar | Ilmattaret |
gen. | Ilmattaren | ||
genitive | Ilmattaren | Ilmattarien Ilmatarten | |
partitive | Ilmatarta | Ilmattaria | |
inessive | Ilmattaressa | Ilmattarissa | |
elative | Ilmattaresta | Ilmattarista | |
illative | Ilmattareen | Ilmattariin | |
adessive | Ilmattarella | Ilmattarilla | |
ablative | Ilmattarelta | Ilmattarilta | |
allative | Ilmattarelle | Ilmattarille | |
essive | Ilmattarena | Ilmattarina | |
translative | Ilmattareksi | Ilmattariksi | |
abessive | Ilmattaretta | Ilmattaritta | |
instructive | — | Ilmattarin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- The given name Ilmatar belongs as a middle name to 270 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Categories:
- Finnish terms suffixed with -tar
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ilmɑtɑr
- Rhymes:Finnish/ilmɑtɑr/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Finnic mythology
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish terms with rare senses
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish sisar-type nominals