Iita
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]An old spoken form of Iida, with formal given name status since the end of the 20th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Iita
- a female given name
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 6 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
- »Iita meni rantaan, / Kirjoitteli santaan / Nimen kultansa, / Nimen kultansa».
- Down to the shore went Ida / And wrote into the sand / Her sweetheart's name / Her sweetheart's name.
- 1909, Ilmari Kianto, Punainen viiva, Otava, published 2003, →ISBN, page 16:
- Neljännelle lapsukaiselle, joka myös syntyi tyttönä, valtasi Riika niinikään omakeksimänsä valikoiman: Iita Linta Maria, joka nimi isänkin mielestä oli näppärä, tyttö kun muutenkin äännähteli kuin mikä tilttakerttu metsässä.
- The fourth child, who was also born a girl, did Riika likewise go with her own suggestion: Iita Linta Maria, a name the father thought was nifty, after all did the girl make noise like a warbler in a forest.
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 6 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Iita (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Iita | Iitat | |
genitive | Iitan | Iitojen | |
partitive | Iitaa | Iitoja | |
illative | Iitaan | Iitoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Iita | Iitat | |
accusative | nom. | Iita | Iitat |
gen. | Iitan | ||
genitive | Iitan | Iitojen Iitain rare | |
partitive | Iitaa | Iitoja | |
inessive | Iitassa | Iitoissa | |
elative | Iitasta | Iitoista | |
illative | Iitaan | Iitoihin | |
adessive | Iitalla | Iitoilla | |
ablative | Iitalta | Iitoilta | |
allative | Iitalle | Iitoille | |
essive | Iitana | Iitoina | |
translative | Iitaksi | Iitoiksi | |
abessive | Iitatta | Iitoitta | |
instructive | — | Iitoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- Iita is the 473rd (tied with 1 other name) most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 786 female individuals (and as a middle name to 537 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.