Venla
Finnish
editEtymology
editFrom German Wendela, short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the tribal name Wendel- (“a Wend”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editVenla
- a female given name
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 2 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
- JUHANI. Minä annan palttua taivaan mannalle, koska en saanut Männistön muorin Venlaa.
- JUHANI: What do I care for the manna of heaven if I can't have Granny Pine's Venla?
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 2 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
Usage notes
edit- Rare until it became known as the name of a character in the first Finnish novel, Seven Brothers (1870) by Aleksis Kivi. Popular in the 2000s.
Declension
editInflection of Venla (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Venla | Venlat | |
genitive | Venlan | Venlojen | |
partitive | Venlaa | Venloja | |
illative | Venlaan | Venloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Venla | Venlat | |
accusative | nom. | Venla | Venlat |
gen. | Venlan | ||
genitive | Venlan | Venlojen Venlain rare | |
partitive | Venlaa | Venloja | |
inessive | Venlassa | Venloissa | |
elative | Venlasta | Venloista | |
illative | Venlaan | Venloihin | |
adessive | Venlalla | Venloilla | |
ablative | Venlalta | Venloilta | |
allative | Venlalle | Venloille | |
essive | Venlana | Venloina | |
translative | Venlaksi | Venloiksi | |
abessive | Venlatta | Venloitta | |
instructive | — | Venloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
edit- Venla is the 82nd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 9,349 female individuals (and as a middle name to 936 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
See also
editAnagrams
editCategories:
- Finnish terms derived from German
- Finnish terms derived from Germanic languages
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/enlɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/enlɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish kala-type nominals