Jussi
See also: jussi
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Medieval pet form of Johannes (“John”), Juhani and related names, with full given name status since mid-twentieth century.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Jussi
- a male given name, and a common diminutive form of names related to Johannes
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 6 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
- TIMO. Ja tuossa makaa Juhani kuin mallassäkki.
EERO. Voi »Poika-Jussia»!
TIMO. Niin kutsui hän itseänsä pikku-poikana.- TIMO: And here like a malt sack lies Juhani.
EERO: Poor-boy Jussi!
TIMO: That's what he called himself when he was little.
- TIMO: And here like a malt sack lies Juhani.
- 1959, Väinö Linna, Täällä Pohjantähden alla [Under the North Star], volume 1, WSOY, page 1:
- Alussa olivat suo, kuokka — ja Jussi.
- In the beginning, there was a swamp, a mattock — and Jussi.
- 1997, Heikki Hietamies, Sydän toivoa täynnä, Otava, →ISBN, page 131:
- —Pojasta tulee Jussi...eiks ole komee nimi, Jussi Saari, semmonen miehekäs. Se me otetaan.
- —The boy will be called Jussi...isn't it a handsome name, Jussi Saari, manly in a way. That's what we're going with.
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 6 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
- The letter J in the Finnish spelling alphabet.
- a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
Declension edit
Inflection of Jussi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Jussi | Jussit | ||
genitive | Jussin | Jussien | ||
partitive | Jussia | Jusseja | ||
illative | Jussiin | Jusseihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Jussi | Jussit | ||
accusative | nom. | Jussi | Jussit | |
gen. | Jussin | |||
genitive | Jussin | Jussien | ||
partitive | Jussia | Jusseja | ||
inessive | Jussissa | Jusseissa | ||
elative | Jussista | Jusseista | ||
illative | Jussiin | Jusseihin | ||
adessive | Jussilla | Jusseilla | ||
ablative | Jussilta | Jusseilta | ||
allative | Jussille | Jusseille | ||
essive | Jussina | Jusseina | ||
translative | Jussiksi | Jusseiksi | ||
abessive | Jussitta | Jusseitta | ||
instructive | — | Jussein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Statistics edit
- Jussi is the 29th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 17,860 male individuals (and as a middle name to 4,347 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
- The surname Jussi belongs to 66 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.