Ranua
English edit
Proper noun edit
Ranua
- A municipality of Lapland, Finland
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Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Originally a farm name (whence the name of the town and the surname). Possibly from dialectal Tavastian ranu, kranu (“bad, stunted, runty, weak”), perhaps through the name for a poor field or bog,[1] of unknown further origin.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Ranua
Declension edit
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Ranua" is Ranualla.
Inflection of Ranua (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Ranua | Ranuat | ||
genitive | Ranuan | Ranuoiden Ranuoitten | ||
partitive | Ranuaa | Ranuoita | ||
illative | Ranuaan | Ranuoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Ranua | Ranuat | ||
accusative | nom. | Ranua | Ranuat | |
gen. | Ranuan | |||
genitive | Ranuan | Ranuoiden Ranuoitten Ranuainrare | ||
partitive | Ranuaa | Ranuoita | ||
inessive | Ranuassa | Ranuoissa | ||
elative | Ranuasta | Ranuoista | ||
illative | Ranuaan | Ranuoihin | ||
adessive | Ranualla | Ranuoilla | ||
ablative | Ranualta | Ranuoilta | ||
allative | Ranualle | Ranuoille | ||
essive | Ranuana | Ranuoina | ||
translative | Ranuaksi | Ranuoiksi | ||
abessive | Ranuatta | Ranuoitta | ||
instructive | — | Ranuoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Statistics edit
- Ranua is the 2830th (tied with 9 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 279 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References edit
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN