Seija
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Invented by linguist Yrjö Karilas for his daughter in 1917, from seijas, a dialectal form of sees (“serene, clear”), also by association with Latin Seia.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Seija
- a female given name popular in the 1930s and the 1940s
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Seija (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Seija | Seijat | ||
genitive | Seijan | Seijojen | ||
partitive | Seijaa | Seijoja | ||
illative | Seijaan | Seijoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Seija | Seijat | ||
accusative | nom. | Seija | Seijat | |
gen. | Seijan | |||
genitive | Seijan | Seijojen Seijainrare | ||
partitive | Seijaa | Seijoja | ||
inessive | Seijassa | Seijoissa | ||
elative | Seijasta | Seijoista | ||
illative | Seijaan | Seijoihin | ||
adessive | Seijalla | Seijoilla | ||
ablative | Seijalta | Seijoilta | ||
allative | Seijalle | Seijoille | ||
essive | Seijana | Seijoina | ||
translative | Seijaksi | Seijoiksi | ||
abessive | Seijatta | Seijoitta | ||
instructive | — | Seijoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics[edit]
- Seija is the 23rd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 20,972 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,507 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.