Eira
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Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish eirá, connected to Guaraní eíra (“honey”), a food the animal is fond of,[1] whence also Portuguese papa-mel, another vernacular name.)
Proper noun[edit]
Eira f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Mustelidae – tayras, of tropical and subtropical forests of Central and South America.
Hypernyms[edit]
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order; Caniformia - suborder; Mustelidae - family; Mustelinae or Guloninae - subfamily
Hyponyms[edit]
- (genus): Eira barbara (sole known species)
References[edit]
- Tayra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Eira on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Eira barbara on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Eira in Mammal Species of the World[1] at Bucknell.
- Eira at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Eira at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- ^ Mark Wainwright, Oscar Arias, The mammals of Costa Rica: a natural history and field guide (2007)
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From an Old Norse goddess of medicine, Eir, eir (“relief”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Eira
- a female given name
- A neighborhood of Helsinki, the site of a hospital named for the Old Norse goddess.
- a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Eira (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Eira | Eirat | ||
genitive | Eiran | Eirojen | ||
partitive | Eiraa | Eiroja | ||
illative | Eiraan | Eiroihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Eira | Eirat | ||
accusative | nom. | Eira | Eirat | |
gen. | Eiran | |||
genitive | Eiran | Eirojen Eirainrare | ||
partitive | Eiraa | Eiroja | ||
inessive | Eirassa | Eiroissa | ||
elative | Eirasta | Eiroista | ||
illative | Eiraan | Eiroihin | ||
adessive | Eiralla | Eiroilla | ||
ablative | Eiralta | Eiroilta | ||
allative | Eiralle | Eiroille | ||
essive | Eirana | Eiroina | ||
translative | Eiraksi | Eiroiksi | ||
abessive | Eiratta | Eiroitta | ||
instructive | — | Eiroin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.
Statistics[edit]
- Eira is the 202nd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 3,073 female individuals (and as a middle name to 457 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
- The surname Eira belongs to 78 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Categories:
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual proper nouns
- mul:Taxonomic names (genus)
- mul:Mustelids
- Finnish terms derived from Old Norse
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eirɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/eirɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- fi:Places in Helsinki
- fi:Places in Uusimaa, Finland
- fi:Places in Finland
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish surnames from given names
- Finnish kala-type nominals