Salme
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
salm (“poem”), also a dialectal word for "inlet, sound".
Proper noun edit
Salme
- a female given name occurring in folk poetry, and the name of a character in Kalevipoeg
- A municipality of Estonia.
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Estonian Salme in the end of the 19th century.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Salme
- a female given name
Declension edit
Inflection of Salme (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Salme | Salmet | ||
genitive | Salmen | Salmejen | ||
partitive | Salmea | Salmeja | ||
illative | Salmeen | Salmeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Salme | Salmet | ||
accusative | nom. | Salme | Salmet | |
gen. | Salmen | |||
genitive | Salmen | Salmejen Salmeinrare | ||
partitive | Salmea | Salmeja | ||
inessive | Salmessa | Salmeissa | ||
elative | Salmesta | Salmeista | ||
illative | Salmeen | Salmeihin | ||
adessive | Salmella | Salmeilla | ||
ablative | Salmelta | Salmeilta | ||
allative | Salmelle | Salmeille | ||
essive | Salmena | Salmeina | ||
translative | Salmeksi | Salmeiksi | ||
abessive | Salmetta | Salmeitta | ||
instructive | — | Salmein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics edit
- Salme is the 172nd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 3,729 female individuals (and as a middle name to 511 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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Noun edit
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