Ritola
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
rito- + -la, originally as an Ostrobothnian farm name. Possibly from rita through place names with the combining form rito-.
- (sense 2): From Ville Ritola, a Finnish long-distance runner who won 8 Olympic medals in the 1920s.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Ritola
- a Finnish surname
- (humorous) escape, flight; used in the idiomatic expression ottaa Ritolat (“to run away, take to the hills”, literally “to take the Ritolas”).
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Ritola (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Ritola | Ritolat | ||
genitive | Ritolan | Ritoloiden Ritoloitten | ||
partitive | Ritolaa | Ritoloita | ||
illative | Ritolaan | Ritoloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Ritola | Ritolat | ||
accusative | nom. | Ritola | Ritolat | |
gen. | Ritolan | |||
genitive | Ritolan | Ritoloiden Ritoloitten Ritolainrare | ||
partitive | Ritolaa | Ritoloita | ||
inessive | Ritolassa | Ritoloissa | ||
elative | Ritolasta | Ritoloista | ||
illative | Ritolaan | Ritoloihin | ||
adessive | Ritolalla | Ritoloilla | ||
ablative | Ritolalta | Ritoloilta | ||
allative | Ritolalle | Ritoloille | ||
essive | Ritolana | Ritoloina | ||
translative | Ritolaksi | Ritoloiksi | ||
abessive | Ritolatta | Ritoloitta | ||
instructive | — | Ritoloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics[edit]
- Ritola is the 1343rd (tied with 1 other surname) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 633 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.