Leevi
Estonian
editProper noun
editLeevi
- Levi (biblical character)
- a male given name of biblical origin
Finnish
editEtymology
editFrom Biblical Hebrew לֵוִי (leví).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editLeevi
- Levi (biblical character)
- a male given name from Biblical Hebrew
- 2021, Niillas Holmberg, Halla Helle, Gummerus, →ISBN, page 198:
- "Isä halus antaa mulle nimeksi Leevi, koska se oli sitä mieltä, että Laestadiuksen äiti nimes poikansa Leeviksi leviittojen mukaan." "Leviittojen?" "Ne on kait pappeja, pappien apulaisia, jotain sellaisia."
- "My dad wanted to nam ee me Leevi because he thought Laestadius's mother named her son Leevi after the Levites." "The Levites?" "I guess they're priests, or assistants to priests, something like that."
Declension
editInflection of Leevi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Leevi | Leevit | |
genitive | Leevin | Leevien | |
partitive | Leeviä | Leevejä | |
illative | Leeviin | Leeveihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Leevi | Leevit | |
accusative | nom. | Leevi | Leevit |
gen. | Leevin | ||
genitive | Leevin | Leevien | |
partitive | Leeviä | Leevejä | |
inessive | Leevissä | Leeveissä | |
elative | Leevistä | Leeveistä | |
illative | Leeviin | Leeveihin | |
adessive | Leevillä | Leeveillä | |
ablative | Leeviltä | Leeveiltä | |
allative | Leeville | Leeveille | |
essive | Leevinä | Leeveinä | |
translative | Leeviksi | Leeveiksi | |
abessive | Leevittä | Leeveittä | |
instructive | — | Leevein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
edit- Leevi is the 77th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 9,276 male individuals (and as a middle name to 1,501 more), and also belongs to 8 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian male given names
- et:Biblical characters
- et:Individuals
- Finnish terms derived from Biblical Hebrew
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eːʋi
- Rhymes:Finnish/eːʋi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish male given names from Biblical Hebrew
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- fi:Biblical characters
- fi:Individuals