Finnish Female Name Pattern with the Suffix -iina
- Autores: Maija Kallio
- Localización: ‘Names and Their Environment’: Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014 / Carole Hough (ed. lit.), Daria Izdebska (ed. lit.), 2016, ISBN 978-0-85261-947-6, págs. 144-153
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This paper discusses Finnish given names, name formation and variation in the popularity of given names in Finland. The topic of this study is the female names ending in -iina, such as Eveliina, Josefiina, Katariina, Pauliina and Vilhelmiina. The iina-ending name type can be considered a productive pattern for creating new Finnish female names, since there are more than 600 different names ending in -iina in the data. The data of this study consists of all the given names that end in -iina given between the end of the 19th century and the year 2012 to Finnish girls who have Finnish as their mother tongue. The suffix -iina is a feminine suffix, since all the names ending in -iina are female names, which makes the name type very particular in the Finnish nomenclature. According to the data of this study, the name type is most popular in the late 19th century and again at the turn of the millennium. It is originally a borrowing from Western European name systems and the suffix has originally been written as -ina also in Finnish, but since the Finnish names are usually written as they are pronounced, the form -iina is nowadays far more common.
