Ii
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ii"
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 井伊 (Ii).
Proper noun
Ii (plural Iis)
- A surname from Japanese.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Ii is the 39004th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 565 individuals. Ii is most common among White (50.44%), Black/African American (26.02%) and Hispanic/Latino (13.63%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), chapter II, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 225.
Finnish
Etymology
After the river, possibly ultimately from the Sami word for "night" (Proto-Samic *ijë).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ii
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Ii" is Iissä.
| Inflection of Ii (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | Ii | — | ||
| genitive | Iin | — | ||
| partitive | Iitä | — | ||
| illative | Iiin | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Ii | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Ii | — | |
| gen. | Iin | |||
| genitive | Iin | — | ||
| partitive | Iitä | — | ||
| inessive | Iissä | — | ||
| elative | Iistä | — | ||
| illative | Iiin | — | ||
| adessive | Iillä | — | ||
| ablative | Iiltä | — | ||
| allative | Iille | — | ||
| essive | Iinä | — | ||
| translative | Iiksi | — | ||
| abessive | Iittä | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Derived terms
compounds
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN