Iiris
See also: iiris
Estonian
editProper noun
editIiris
- a female given name, variant of Iris
Finnish
editEtymology
editFlower name from iiris (“iris”) at the end of the 19th century, also phonetic rendering of the Swedish Iris.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editIiris
- a female given name
- 1982, Orvokki Autio, Kotipesä, Gummerus, →ISBN, pages 11–12:
- Olavi oli vain ähkynyt ja haronut hiuksiaan, kun Armi oli puhunut kirjasta, jonka oli lukenut koululaisena. Siinä kirjassa oli ollut Iiris-niminen pieni tyttö. Klewe oli ollut tytön sukunimi. Ei Olavi ollut kuullutkaan sellaisesta kirjasta, mutta oli siihen aikaan myöntynyt kaikkeen, mitä Armi oli tahtonut. [ - - - ]
—Ei Iiris oo olematoon nimi, oli Armi sanonut. —Se on kaunis.
—Se ei oo täs tapaukses ollenkaan pääasia, oli anoppi vatkuttanut almanakka ja silmälasit käsissä täristen.- Olavi had just grunted and groped his hair, when Armi had mentioned a book that she had read when she was still in school. The book had a young girl named Iiris. Klewe was the girl's surname. Olavi had never heard of such a book, but back then he still went along with anything Armi wanted. [ - - - ]
—Iiris isn't a terrible name, Armi had said. —It's beautiful.
—That's not the matter at all here, the mother-in-law had harped on, with her shivering hands grasping onto a calendar and eyeglasses.
- Olavi had just grunted and groped his hair, when Armi had mentioned a book that she had read when she was still in school. The book had a young girl named Iiris. Klewe was the girl's surname. Olavi had never heard of such a book, but back then he still went along with anything Armi wanted. [ - - - ]
Declension
editInflection of Iiris (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Iiris | Iirikset | |
genitive | Iiriksen | Iiristen Iiriksien | |
partitive | Iiristä | Iiriksiä | |
illative | Iirikseen | Iiriksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Iiris | Iirikset | |
accusative | nom. | Iiris | Iirikset |
gen. | Iiriksen | ||
genitive | Iiriksen | Iiristen Iiriksien | |
partitive | Iiristä | Iiriksiä | |
inessive | Iiriksessä | Iiriksissä | |
elative | Iiriksestä | Iiriksistä | |
illative | Iirikseen | Iiriksiin | |
adessive | Iiriksellä | Iiriksillä | |
ablative | Iirikseltä | Iiriksiltä | |
allative | Iirikselle | Iiriksille | |
essive | Iiriksenä | Iiriksinä | |
translative | Iirikseksi | Iiriksiksi | |
abessive | Iiriksettä | Iiriksittä | |
instructive | — | Iiriksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
edit- Iiris is the 156th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 4,480 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,609 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
editCategories:
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian female given names
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/iːris
- Rhymes:Finnish/iːris/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish vastaus-type nominals