Kaisa
See also: kaisa
Estonian
editProper noun
editKaisa
- a female given name, variant of Katariina (“Catherine”)
Finnish
editEtymology
editMedieval diminutive of Katariina, cognate to Swedish Kajsa.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editKaisa
- a female given name
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 9 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
- Tullut ompi Kuppa-Kaisa, / Hemmon sauna ryöhää.
- Cupper-Kaisa has arrived / And Hemmo's sauna's smoking.
- 1986, Vuokko Tolonen, Lastenhuone, Otava, →ISBN, page 19:
- —Teiltä puuttuu lapsen nimiehdotus, hän sanoo lääketehtaan mainoskynä kädessään. —Varmuuden vuoksi, hän sanoo painokkaasti. Hän painaa terän esille ja on jo melkein kirjoittanut nimen omasta päästään. Me ajattelimme, ettemme anna nimeä ennen kuin näemme lapsen, tytön.
—Kaisa, sanon koska se tulee ensimmäisenä mieleen.- ...says "You don't have a suggested name yet" with a pen branded after a pharmaceutical factory in hand, and continues "just in case", extends the pen's tip and has almost already written the name out from memory. We thought that we wouldn't give a name until we had seen the child, the girl.
—Kaisa, I say because that's the first name that comes to mind.
- ...says "You don't have a suggested name yet" with a pen branded after a pharmaceutical factory in hand, and continues "just in case", extends the pen's tip and has almost already written the name out from memory. We thought that we wouldn't give a name until we had seen the child, the girl.
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 9 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
Declension
editInflection of Kaisa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
---|---|---|---|
nominative | Kaisa | Kaisat | |
genitive | Kaisan | Kaisojen | |
partitive | Kaisaa | Kaisoja | |
illative | Kaisaan | Kaisoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Kaisa | Kaisat | |
accusative | nom. | Kaisa | Kaisat |
gen. | Kaisan | ||
genitive | Kaisan | Kaisojen Kaisain rare | |
partitive | Kaisaa | Kaisoja | |
inessive | Kaisassa | Kaisoissa | |
elative | Kaisasta | Kaisoista | |
illative | Kaisaan | Kaisoihin | |
adessive | Kaisalla | Kaisoilla | |
ablative | Kaisalta | Kaisoilta | |
allative | Kaisalle | Kaisoille | |
essive | Kaisana | Kaisoina | |
translative | Kaisaksi | Kaisoiksi | |
abessive | Kaisatta | Kaisoitta | |
instructive | — | Kaisoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
editcompounds
Statistics
edit- Kaisa is the 63rd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 10,994 female individuals (and as a middle name to 8,314 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
editCategories:
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian female given names
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑisɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑisɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish kala-type nominals