Eira
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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish eirá, connected to Guaraní eíra (“honey”), a food the animal is fond of,[1] whence also Portuguese papa-mel, another vernacular name.)
Proper noun
[edit]Eira f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Mustelidae – tayras, of tropical and subtropical forests of Central and South America.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order; Caniformia - suborder; Mustelidae - family; Guloninae - subfamily
Hyponyms
[edit]- (genus): Eira barbara (sole known species)
References
[edit]- Tayra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Eira on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Eira barbara on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Eira in Mammal Species of the World[1] at Bucknell.
- Eira at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Eira at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- ^ Mark Wainwright, Oscar Arias, The mammals of Costa Rica: a natural history and field guide (2007)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From an Old Norse goddess of medicine, Eir, eir (“relief”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Eira
- a female given name
- A neighborhood of Helsinki, the site of a hospital named for the Old Norse goddess.
- a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Eira (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Eira | Eirat | |
genitive | Eiran | Eirojen | |
partitive | Eiraa | Eiroja | |
illative | Eiraan | Eiroihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Eira | Eirat | |
accusative | nom. | Eira | Eirat |
gen. | Eiran | ||
genitive | Eiran | Eirojen Eirain rare | |
partitive | Eiraa | Eiroja | |
inessive | Eirassa | Eiroissa | |
elative | Eirasta | Eiroista | |
illative | Eiraan | Eiroihin | |
adessive | Eiralla | Eiroilla | |
ablative | Eiralta | Eiroilta | |
allative | Eiralle | Eiroille | |
essive | Eirana | Eiroina | |
translative | Eiraksi | Eiroiksi | |
abessive | Eiratta | Eiroitta | |
instructive | — | Eiroin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.
Statistics
[edit]- Eira is the 202nd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 3,073 female individuals (and as a middle name to 457 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
- The surname Eira belongs to 78 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Categories:
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual proper nouns
- mul:Taxonomic names (genus)
- mul:Mustelids
- Finnish terms derived from Old Norse
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eirɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/eirɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- fi:Places in Helsinki
- fi:Places in Uusimaa, Finland
- fi:Places in Finland
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish surnames from given names
- Finnish kala-type nominals