Senja
See also: senja
English
editProper noun
editSenja
Finnish
editEtymology
editKarelian form of the Russian saint's name Ксе́ния (Ksénija), Latinized as Xenia, ultimately from Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitable”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editSenja
- a female given name
Declension
editInflection of Senja (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Senja | Senjat | ||
genitive | Senjan | Senjojen | ||
partitive | Senjaa | Senjoja | ||
illative | Senjaan | Senjoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Senja | Senjat | ||
accusative | nom. | Senja | Senjat | |
gen. | Senjan | |||
genitive | Senjan | Senjojen Senjain rare | ||
partitive | Senjaa | Senjoja | ||
inessive | Senjassa | Senjoissa | ||
elative | Senjasta | Senjoista | ||
illative | Senjaan | Senjoihin | ||
adessive | Senjalla | Senjoilla | ||
ablative | Senjalta | Senjoilta | ||
allative | Senjalle | Senjoille | ||
essive | Senjana | Senjoina | ||
translative | Senjaksi | Senjoiksi | ||
abessive | Senjatta | Senjoitta | ||
instructive | — | Senjoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
edit- Senja is the 217th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,699 female individuals (and as a middle name to 605 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Norwegian Bokmål
editProper noun
editSenja
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse Senja f, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editSenja f
Derived terms
editCompounds with Senja use Senje-, from the Old Norse oblique Senju.
- Senjehopen
- senjeværing (“someone from Senja”)
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- Finnish terms derived from Russian
- Finnish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/enjɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/enjɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Islands
- nb:Places in Troms
- nb:Places in Norway
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns
- nn:Islands
- nn:Places in Troms
- nn:Places in Norway