Silja
Appearance
Estonian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Silja
- a female given name, equivalent to English Cecilia
Related terms
[edit]Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately, from Latin Caecilia.
Proper noun
[edit]Silja f
- a female given name
Usage notes
[edit]Matronymics
- son of Silja: Siljuson
- daughter of Silja: Siljudóttir
Declension
[edit]Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Silja |
Accusative | Silju |
Dative | Silju |
Genitive | Silju |
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Silja
- a female given name
- 1931, Frans Emil Sillanpää, “Nuorena nukkunut”, in Silja ja Ihmiset suviyössä, Suuri Suomalainen Kirjakerho, published 1988, →ISBN, page 67:
- Mutta tyttö, jolle kasteessa oli annettu nimi Cecilia ja jota puheessa sanottiin Siljaksi, se kasvoi ja menestyi eikä tiennyt tämän maailman vastuksista.
- But the girl, christened Cecilia and often called Silja, grew up, became successful, ignorant of the hardships in this world.
- 2006, Pirjo Hassinen, Isänpäivä, Otava, →ISBN, page 257:
- Kirjoitin servieteille myös Siljan nimeä. Sitä oli vaikea kirjoittaa muuta kuin naisellisesti. Se näytti koruompeleelta tai nimikoinnilta morsiuskapioissa. Liioittelin silmukoita ja piirsin s-kirjaimen perhosen rullalle kiertyneeksi tuntosarveksi. Vaikka joskus meninkin Satulasta kotiin Siljan sängyn kautta, en tuntenut paljon mitään.
- I wrote the name Silja on the serviettes too. It was difficult to write it in any other way than a feminine one. It looks like embroidery or a name sown on trousseaux. I exaggerated the squiggles and drew the S like a curled up antenna of a butterfly. Even though I came back to Satula through a Silja bed sometimes, I didn't feel like much.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Silja (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Silja | Siljat | |
genitive | Siljan | Siljojen | |
partitive | Siljaa | Siljoja | |
illative | Siljaan | Siljoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Silja | Siljat | |
accusative | nom. | Silja | Siljat |
gen. | Siljan | ||
genitive | Siljan | Siljojen Siljain rare | |
partitive | Siljaa | Siljoja | |
inessive | Siljassa | Siljoissa | |
elative | Siljasta | Siljoista | |
illative | Siljaan | Siljoihin | |
adessive | Siljalla | Siljoilla | |
ablative | Siljalta | Siljoilta | |
allative | Siljalle | Siljoille | |
essive | Siljana | Siljoina | |
translative | Siljaksi | Siljoiksi | |
abessive | Siljatta | Siljoitta | |
instructive | — | Siljoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Silja is the 135th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,411 female individuals (and as a middle name to 899 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
[edit]Icelandic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Silja f (genitive singular Silju, nominative plural Siljur)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Cecilia
Declension
[edit]Categories:
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian female given names
- Faroese terms derived from Latin
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese proper nouns
- Faroese feminine nouns
- Faroese given names
- Faroese female given names
- Finnish terms derived from Latin
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/iljɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/iljɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- Icelandic 2-syllable words
- Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɪlja
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɪlja/2 syllables
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic feminine nouns
- Icelandic given names
- Icelandic female given names