Yrjö
Appearance
See also: yrjö
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Medieval vernacular form of the Latin saint's name Geōrgius and of its Old Swedish / Middle Low Saxon equivalents, ultimately from Ancient Greek. Cognate to English George.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Yrjö
- a male given name
- Pyhä Yrjö ― Saint George
- Yrjö VI ― George VI (of England)
- 1914, Anni Swan, Tottisalmen perillinen, WSOY, published 2000, →ISBN, page 61:
- —Yrjö, Yrjö! Taivaan tähden, kuinka hän sen nimen on saanut?
—Yrjö on varsin tavallinen nimi.
—Mutta sehän on von Sumersien perintönimi. Niin pitkälle kun tiedän, ovat Tottisalmen isännät aina olleet Yrjöjä.- —Yrjö, Yrjö! Dear heavens, how did he get such a name?
—Yrjö is a rather common name.
—But it's von Sumers' heritage name. The householder at Tottisalmi has always been called Yrjö for as long as I know.
- —Yrjö, Yrjö! Dear heavens, how did he get such a name?
- The letter Y in the Finnish spelling alphabet.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Yrjö (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Yrjö | Yrjöt | |
genitive | Yrjön | Yrjöjen | |
partitive | Yrjöä | Yrjöjä | |
illative | Yrjöön | Yrjöihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Yrjö | Yrjöt | |
accusative | nom. | Yrjö | Yrjöt |
gen. | Yrjön | ||
genitive | Yrjön | Yrjöjen | |
partitive | Yrjöä | Yrjöjä | |
inessive | Yrjössä | Yrjöissä | |
elative | Yrjöstä | Yrjöistä | |
illative | Yrjöön | Yrjöihin | |
adessive | Yrjöllä | Yrjöillä | |
ablative | Yrjöltä | Yrjöiltä | |
allative | Yrjölle | Yrjöille | |
essive | Yrjönä | Yrjöinä | |
translative | Yrjöksi | Yrjöiksi | |
abessive | Yrjöttä | Yrjöittä | |
instructive | — | Yrjöin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
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Related terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Yrjö is the 164th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 3,861 male individuals (and as a middle name to 3,682 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Categories:
- Finnish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/yrjø
- Rhymes:Finnish/yrjø/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish valo-type nominals