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English
Proper noun
Salla
- A municipality of Lapland, Finland
Translations
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Finnish
Etymology
From Northern Sami Salla. As a given name also inspired by Salli and Saara.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Salla
- (uncountable) Salla (municipality)
- Synonym: (before 1936) Kuolajärvi
- a female given name transferred from the place name
2007, Esa Sariola: Valtakirja, →ISBN, page 7:Inkeri. Mitä varten niin pienellä tytöllä oli sellainen nimi? Minä tiesin, koska olin kysynyt. Nimi tuli Sallan isoäidiltä, eikä sillä hänen tietääkseen ollut mitään erityisempää merkitystä. Se oli vain kaunis nimi, jonka hän halusi säilyttää suvussa. Niinhän ne nimet kiertävät. Mutta kyllä sillä merkitys oli. Hänellä oli nimittäin myös isosetä, nimeltään Aunus, ja isotäti Viena. Aunus, Inkeri, Viena ja Salla, rajantakaista Karjalaa kaikki paitsi Salla, mutta sieltäkin oli Neuvostoliitto sodassa riistänyt ison palan. Historia eli pienessä tytössä, jonka hänen äitinsä oli omien isovanhempiensa esimerkin mukaan nimennyt kenties ajattelematta, että aikanaan nimi oli julistanut Suur-Suomea ja heimoaatetta, luultavasti heimosotiakin.- Inkeri. What for did such a young girl have a name like that? I knew, since I had asked that question. The name came from Salla's grandmother, and as far as she knew, it didn't have any special meaning. It was just a beautiful name that she wanted to keep going in the family. That's how names tend to go, after all. But it did have a meaning. She also had a great uncle named Aunus, and a great aunt named Viena. Aunus, Inkeri, Viena and Salla, all in the ceded Karelia except for Salla, which too had had a large piece taken off it by the Soviets after the war. That little girl had a piece of history living in her, that her mother had named after her grandparents' example perhaps without thinking about how the name had once stood for Greater Finland and heimoaate, perhaps even for the Heimosodat.
- a Finnish surname transferred from the place name
Declension
- (municipality): The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used when referring to a location; for example, "in Salla" is Sallassa.
Derived terms
Statistics
- Salla is the 133rd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,443 female individuals (and as a middle name to 504 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
- The surname Salla belongs to 221 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
See also
- other female names from places in Lapland: Saana, Inari
Further reading
Anagrams
Northern Sami
Etymology
Unknown. Has been compared to Lule Sami sálla (“crack, crevasse”), but the similarity may be a coincidence.
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈsalːla/
Proper noun
Salˈla
- Salla (a municipality of Finland)
Inflection
Even a-stem, lˈl-ll gradation
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Nominative
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Salˈla
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Genitive
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Salla
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Singular
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Plural
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Nominative
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Salˈla
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Accusative
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Salla
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Genitive
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Salla
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Illative
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Salˈlii
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Locative
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Sallas
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Comitative
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Sallain
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Essive
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Salˈlan
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Descendants
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland