Ritola
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]rito- + -la, originally as an Ostrobothnian farm name. Possibly from rita through place names with the combining form rito-.
- (sense 2): From Ville Ritola, a Finnish long-distance runner who won 8 Olympic medals in the 1920s.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ritola
- a Finnish surname
- (humorous) escape, flight; used in the idiomatic expression ottaa Ritolat (“to run away, take to the hills”, literally “to take the Ritolas”).
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Ritola (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Ritola | Ritolat | |
genitive | Ritolan | Ritoloiden Ritoloitten | |
partitive | Ritolaa | Ritoloita | |
illative | Ritolaan | Ritoloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Ritola | Ritolat | |
accusative | nom. | Ritola | Ritolat |
gen. | Ritolan | ||
genitive | Ritolan | Ritoloiden Ritoloitten Ritolain rare | |
partitive | Ritolaa | Ritoloita | |
inessive | Ritolassa | Ritoloissa | |
elative | Ritolasta | Ritoloista | |
illative | Ritolaan | Ritoloihin | |
adessive | Ritolalla | Ritoloilla | |
ablative | Ritolalta | Ritoloilta | |
allative | Ritolalle | Ritoloille | |
essive | Ritolana | Ritoloina | |
translative | Ritolaksi | Ritoloiksi | |
abessive | Ritolatta | Ritoloitta | |
instructive | — | Ritoloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- Ritola is the 1343rd (tied with 1 other surname) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 633 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.