Helga
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse Helga ("holy"), a pre-Christian term, feminine form of Helgi. Doublet of Olga.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Helga
- A female given name from the Germanic languages occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Helga
- a female given name from Old Norse
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Helga
- a female given name
Related terms
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Helga f
- a female given name
Estonian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Helga
- a female given name, ultimately from Old Norse Helga
Related terms
[edit]Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Helga f
- a female given name
Usage notes
[edit]Matronymics
- son of Helga: Helguson
- daughter of Helga: Helgudóttir
Declension
[edit]Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Helga |
Accusative | Helgu |
Dative | Helgu |
Genitive | Helgu |
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Variant of Helka.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Helga
- a female given name
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Helga (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Helga | Helgat | |
genitive | Helgan | Helgojen | |
partitive | Helgaa | Helgoja | |
illative | Helgaan | Helgoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Helga | Helgat | |
accusative | nom. | Helga | Helgat |
gen. | Helgan | ||
genitive | Helgan | Helgojen Helgain rare | |
partitive | Helgaa | Helgoja | |
inessive | Helgassa | Helgoissa | |
elative | Helgasta | Helgoista | |
illative | Helgaan | Helgoihin | |
adessive | Helgalla | Helgoilla | |
ablative | Helgalta | Helgoilta | |
allative | Helgalle | Helgoille | |
essive | Helgana | Helgoina | |
translative | Helgaksi | Helgoiksi | |
abessive | Helgatta | Helgoitta | |
instructive | — | Helgoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- Helga is the 350th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,226 female individuals (and as a middle name to 432 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Helga
- a female given name from Old Norse Helga
Related terms
[edit]Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Helga
- a female given name
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Helga | Helgák |
accusative | Helgát | Helgákat |
dative | Helgának | Helgáknak |
instrumental | Helgával | Helgákkal |
causal-final | Helgáért | Helgákért |
translative | Helgává | Helgákká |
terminative | Helgáig | Helgákig |
essive-formal | Helgaként | Helgákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Helgában | Helgákban |
superessive | Helgán | Helgákon |
adessive | Helgánál | Helgáknál |
illative | Helgába | Helgákba |
sublative | Helgára | Helgákra |
allative | Helgához | Helgákhoz |
elative | Helgából | Helgákból |
delative | Helgáról | Helgákról |
ablative | Helgától | Helgáktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Helgáé | Helgáké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Helgáéi | Helgákéi |
Possessive forms of Helga | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Helgám | Helgáim |
2nd person sing. | Helgád | Helgáid |
3rd person sing. | Helgája | Helgái |
1st person plural | Helgánk | Helgáink |
2nd person plural | Helgátok | Helgáitok |
3rd person plural | Helgájuk | Helgáik |
Icelandic
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Helga f
- a female given name from Old Norse, masculine equivalent Helgi
Related terms
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse Helga, from *heiligr (“happy, lucky”).
Proper noun
[edit]Helga f (definite Helga)
- a female given name from Old Norse, masculine equivalent Helge
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Eivind Vågslid (1988) Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN, page 170
- Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 3 169 females with the given name Helga living in Norway on January 1st 2023, with the frequency peak in the 1880s and 90s. Accessed on 17th January, 2023.
Old Norse
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Old Norse adjectives helga, a weak forms of *heiligr (“happy, lucky”).
The alternative form Hǫlga stems from the Old Norse adjective hǫlga, a weak form of *heilugr.
Cognate to the male given names Helgi and Hǫlgi.
Proper noun
[edit]Helga f (genitive Helgu)
- a female given name
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: Helga
- Faroese: Helga
- Norwegian: Helga, Hege, Hæge (Setesdal)
- Old Swedish: Hiælgha, Hælgha
- Danish: Helga, Helle
- → Finnish: Helka, Hella
- → Russian: О́льга (Ólʹga)
- → Belarusian: Во́льга (Vólʹha)
- → Ukrainian: О́льга (Ólʹha)
Helga m
- inflection of Helgi:
References
[edit]- Eivind Vågslid, Norderlendske fyrenamn, 1988, →ISBN
- Roland Otterbjörk, Svenska förnamn, Stockholm 1964
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Old Norse Helga. Doublet of Olga.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Helga f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Helga
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Helga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Helga f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Helga
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Helga f (Cyrillic spelling Хелга)
- a female given name
Further reading
[edit]- “Helga”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena (in Serbo-Croatian)
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Swedish Helga, from Old Norse Helga.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Helga f (genitive singular Helgy, nominative plural Helgy, declension pattern of žena)
- a female given name
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Helga”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish Hiælgha, Hælgha, from Old Norse Helga.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Helga c (genitive Helgas)
- a female given name
Related terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English female given names
- English female given names from Germanic languages
- Cebuano terms derived from Old Norse
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano nouns
- Cebuano given names
- Cebuano female given names
- Cebuano female given names from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish given names
- Danish female given names
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch feminine nouns
- Dutch given names
- Dutch female given names
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian female given names
- Estonian terms derived from Old Norse
- Faroese terms inherited from Old Norse
- Faroese terms derived from Old Norse
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese proper nouns
- Faroese feminine nouns
- Faroese given names
- Faroese female given names
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/elɡɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/elɡɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German given names
- German female given names
- German female given names from Old Norse
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɡɒ
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɡɒ/2 syllables
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian proper nouns
- Hungarian given names
- Hungarian female given names
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic proper nouns
- Icelandic feminine nouns
- Icelandic given names
- Icelandic female given names
- Icelandic female given names from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk given names
- Norwegian Nynorsk female given names
- Norwegian Nynorsk female given names from Old Norse
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse proper nouns
- Old Norse feminine nouns
- Old Norse given names
- Old Norse female given names
- Old Norse non-lemma forms
- Old Norse proper noun forms
- Polish terms derived from Old Norse
- Polish doublets
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛlɡa
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛlɡa/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
- Polish given names
- Polish female given names
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛlɡɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛlɡɐ/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛwɡɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛwɡɐ/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese given names
- Portuguese female given names
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian proper nouns
- Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns
- Serbo-Croatian given names
- Serbo-Croatian female given names
- Slovak terms derived from Swedish
- Slovak terms derived from Old Norse
- Slovak 2-syllable words
- Slovak terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovak lemmas
- Slovak proper nouns
- Slovak feminine nouns
- Slovak given names
- Slovak female given names
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms with audio links
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish given names
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