Lempi
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See also: lempi
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined in the 19th century from lempi (“love”); comparable to English Charity.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Lempi
- a female given name
- 1979 Tuula Saarto, Tulen lapset, auringon lapset, Otava, ISBN 951-1-0544-2, page 69:
- Toiset olivat joskus―hän muisti sen nyt, selällään maaten, sormet kulkien pitkin pelkäksi tunnoksi muuttunutta pintaa―pilkanneet häntä hänen nimestään ja hän oli ajatellut: Lempi, se tarkoittaa että Roope rakasti minun äitiäni eniten...
- The others had once―she recalled it now, lying on her back, with her fingers running over a surface now only palpable―mocked her for her name and she had thought: Lempi, it means that Roope loved my mother the most...
- 2016, Minna Rytisalo, Lempi, Gummerus, →ISBN, page 20:
- Mikä on kauppiaantyttären nimi, kun en tiennyt, se piti kysyä ja jo se pisti vähän hymyilyttämään. Painoit päätäsi, katsoit ripsiesi alta, poskissasi kuopat kun sanoit hiljaa: Lempi.
Lempi niin kuin lempeä, lauha, lämmin, ajattelin, ja kuulin sen kaiken äänestäsi.- What was the name of the trader's daughter, when I didn't know, I had to ask and that already made me smile a bit. You pushed your head down, looked at me under your eyelashes, with pits in your cheeks as you quietly said: Lempi.
Lempi, like gentle, mild, warm, I thought, and could hear all that in your voice.
- What was the name of the trader's daughter, when I didn't know, I had to ask and that already made me smile a bit. You pushed your head down, looked at me under your eyelashes, with pits in your cheeks as you quietly said: Lempi.
- 1979 Tuula Saarto, Tulen lapset, auringon lapset, Otava, ISBN 951-1-0544-2, page 69:
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Lempi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Lempi | Lempit | ||
genitive | Lempin | Lempien | ||
partitive | Lempiä | Lempejä | ||
illative | Lempiin | Lempeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Lempi | Lempit | ||
accusative | nom. | Lempi | Lempit | |
gen. | Lempin | |||
genitive | Lempin | Lempien | ||
partitive | Lempiä | Lempejä | ||
inessive | Lempissä | Lempeissä | ||
elative | Lempistä | Lempeistä | ||
illative | Lempiin | Lempeihin | ||
adessive | Lempillä | Lempeillä | ||
ablative | Lempiltä | Lempeiltä | ||
allative | Lempille | Lempeille | ||
essive | Lempinä | Lempeinä | ||
translative | Lempiksi | Lempeiksi | ||
abessive | Lempittä | Lempeittä | ||
instructive | — | Lempein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Declined differently from the common noun lempi.
Related terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Lempi is the 411th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 961 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,189 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.