Yrjö
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See also: yrjö
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Medieval vernacular form of the Latin saint's name Georgius 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[edit]
compounds
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.
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- 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