Osmo
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Taken from the Kalevala, a term for a young man, probably ultimately from osma (“wolverine”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Osmo
- a male given name
- 1849 Kalevala (Translation 1988 by Eino Friberg) 2:252-256:
- Eipä nouse Osmon ohra, / Ei kasva Kalevan kaura / Ilman maan alistamatta, / Ilman kasken kaatamatta, / Tuon tulella polttamatta.
- Osmo's barley willl not sprout / Nor the oats of Kaleva grow / Without clearing off the land, / Without cutting out a clearing, / Burning it all off with fire.
- 1849 Kalevala (Translation 1988 by Eino Friberg) 2:252-256:
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Osmo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Osmo | Osmot | |
genitive | Osmon | Osmojen | |
partitive | Osmoa | Osmoja | |
illative | Osmoon | Osmoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Osmo | Osmot | |
accusative | nom. | Osmo | Osmot |
gen. | Osmon | ||
genitive | Osmon | Osmojen | |
partitive | Osmoa | Osmoja | |
inessive | Osmossa | Osmoissa | |
elative | Osmosta | Osmoista | |
illative | Osmoon | Osmoihin | |
adessive | Osmolla | Osmoilla | |
ablative | Osmolta | Osmoilta | |
allative | Osmolle | Osmoille | |
essive | Osmona | Osmoina | |
translative | Osmoksi | Osmoiksi | |
abessive | Osmotta | Osmoitta | |
instructive | — | Osmoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Statistics
[edit]- Osmo is the 131st most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 4,859 male individuals (and as a middle name to 1,492 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Documented as Osamo in 1158. A Celtic place name, from Proto-Celtic *uxsamo- (“the uppermost”), from Proto-Celtic *owxs- (from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewps-, "high") + Proto-Celtic *-samo-, a superlative suffix.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Osmo m
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Prósper, B. M. (2004) "Varia paleohispanica occidentalia", in Palaeohispanica, 4, page 189.
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 303.
Categories:
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/osmo
- Rhymes:Finnish/osmo/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- fi:Finnic mythology
- Galician terms derived from Celtic languages
- Galician terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Galician terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician proper nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- gl:Places in Galicia
- gl:Places in Spain