Kirsi
Appearance
Estonian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Kirsi
- a female given name. A variant of Kristiina, also associated with kirss meaning cherry
Kirsi (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- a female given name
Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]A twentieth century variant of Kirsti, also associated with kirsikka (“cherry”) as in the conjoined name Kirsi-Marja (“cherry berry”).
Proper noun
[edit]Kirsi
- a female given name
- 1956, Kirsi Kunnas, Tiitiäisen satupuu, WSOY, published 1993, →ISBN, page 43:
- Veisaisinpa virsiä
jos muistuttaisin Kirsiä.
Jos muistuttaisin Tuomasta
lakkaisin lauluja luomasta.- I would I could sing chants
if I resembled a Kirsi.
If I resembled a Tuomas
I'd stop singing those songs.
- I would I could sing chants
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Kirsi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Kirsi | Kirsit | |
genitive | Kirsin | Kirsien | |
partitive | Kirsiä | Kirsejä | |
illative | Kirsiin | Kirseihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Kirsi | Kirsit | |
accusative | nom. | Kirsi | Kirsit |
gen. | Kirsin | ||
genitive | Kirsin | Kirsien | |
partitive | Kirsiä | Kirsejä | |
inessive | Kirsissä | Kirseissä | |
elative | Kirsistä | Kirseistä | |
illative | Kirsiin | Kirseihin | |
adessive | Kirsillä | Kirseillä | |
ablative | Kirsiltä | Kirseiltä | |
allative | Kirsille | Kirseille | |
essive | Kirsinä | Kirseinä | |
translative | Kirsiksi | Kirseiksi | |
abessive | Kirsittä | Kirseittä | |
instructive | — | Kirsein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Statistics
[edit]- Kirsi is the 31st most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 19,274 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,302 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Etymology 2
[edit]As a byname/nickname, from Swedish girs (“ruffe”).[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Kirsi
- a Finnish surname
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Kirsi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Kirsi | Kirsit | |
genitive | Kirsin | Kirsien | |
partitive | Kirsiä | Kirsejä | |
illative | Kirsiin | Kirseihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Kirsi | Kirsit | |
accusative | nom. | Kirsi | Kirsit |
gen. | Kirsin | ||
genitive | Kirsin | Kirsien | |
partitive | Kirsiä | Kirsejä | |
inessive | Kirsissä | Kirseissä | |
elative | Kirsistä | Kirseistä | |
illative | Kirsiin | Kirseihin | |
adessive | Kirsillä | Kirseillä | |
ablative | Kirsiltä | Kirseiltä | |
allative | Kirsille | Kirseille | |
essive | Kirsinä | Kirseinä | |
translative | Kirsiksi | Kirseiksi | |
abessive | Kirsittä | Kirseittä | |
instructive | — | Kirsein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- The surname Kirsi belongs to 133 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
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[edit]Categories:
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian female given names
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/irsi
- Rhymes:Finnish/irsi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish surnames