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Finnish
Etymology
From the stem kyllin, kylliksi, etc. in the sense "plentiful" + -kki.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kyllikki
- The wife of Lemminkäinen in the Kalevala.
- 1849 Kalevala (Translation 1988 by Eino Friberg) 11:247-250:
Kyllikki, syänkäpyni, / Minun maire marjueni! / Ellös olko milläkänä! / En sua pahoin pitäne: /- Kyllikki, my own heart's core! / My delicious little berry! / Don't you worry any more, / I won't treat you very badly: /
- a female given name
1985, Heikki Turunen, Mustarinnan lapset, WSOY, →ISBN, pages 48, 378:―Kyllikki.
―No niinniin. Mitä nauramista siinä nyt on. Se se on äitin nimi, tehty laulujakkii, onkos teistä tehty. Jotta jos Kyllikki viel olet entinen tule käymään kanssani kahden...
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Niihä se mullekki tässä Kalttiisen Terttu kerto kuulleesa kun oli humalaiset jätkät Lieksan aseman ulukohuoneessa mölisseet jottain nyrkkikyllikistä, pirruuko hyö sitten lie sillä tarkottanneet, ei varmaan mittää oivahommoo...ja Terttu tietysti heti mulle kun minä oon Kyllikki. Hehhee, vain mitäs myö niistä.- ―Kyllikki.
―Yes, of course. What is there to laugh about. That's my mother name, even appears in songs, how about you. Jotta jos Kyllikki viel olet entinen tule käymään kanssani kahden...
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Kalttiinen's Terttu told me too recently that when some drunk guys had at the Lieksa station outhouse talked something about nyrkkikyllikki, whatever the hell they had meant by that, probably nothing good...and Terttu of course told me as I'm Kyllikki. Hehe, well what we should care about them.
Declension
Statistics
- Kyllikki is the 428th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 918 female individuals (and as a middle name to 31,315 more, making it much more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.