Ilmatar
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ilma (“air”) + -tar. The given name was adopted from the Kalevala in the 19th century.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Ilmatar
- (Finnic mythology) An air spirit and the mother of Väinämöinen in the Kalevala.
- 1849 Kalevala (Translation 1988 by Eino Friberg) 1:107-112:
- Yksin syntyi Väinämöinen, / Ilmestyi ikirunoja / Kapehesta kantajasta, / Ilmattaresta emosta. / Olipa impi, ilman tyttö, / Kave luonnotar korea.
- Lonely born was Väinämöinen, / All alone, the poet immortal, / From the beautiful who bore him, / From his mother, Ilmatar. / She, the virgin of the air, / Beautiful maiden, Nature's girl, /
- 1849 Kalevala (Translation 1988 by Eino Friberg) 1:107-112:
- (rare as a first name) a female given name
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Ilmatar (Kotus type 32*C/sisar, tt-t gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Ilmatar | Ilmattaret | ||
genitive | Ilmattaren | Ilmattarien Ilmatarten | ||
partitive | Ilmatarta | Ilmattaria | ||
illative | Ilmattareen | Ilmattariin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Ilmatar | Ilmattaret | ||
accusative | nom. | Ilmatar | Ilmattaret | |
gen. | Ilmattaren | |||
genitive | Ilmattaren | Ilmattarien Ilmatarten | ||
partitive | Ilmatarta | Ilmattaria | ||
inessive | Ilmattaressa | Ilmattarissa | ||
elative | Ilmattaresta | Ilmattarista | ||
illative | Ilmattareen | Ilmattariin | ||
adessive | Ilmattarella | Ilmattarilla | ||
ablative | Ilmattarelta | Ilmattarilta | ||
allative | Ilmattarelle | Ilmattarille | ||
essive | Ilmattarena | Ilmattarina | ||
translative | Ilmattareksi | Ilmattariksi | ||
abessive | Ilmattaretta | Ilmattaritta | ||
instructive | — | Ilmattarin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms[edit]
Statistics[edit]
- The given name Ilmatar belongs as a middle name to 270 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Categories:
- Finnish terms suffixed with -tar
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ilmɑtɑr
- Rhymes:Finnish/ilmɑtɑr/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Finnic mythology
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish terms with rare senses
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish sisar-type nominals