Birgitta
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Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish Brigit. Borrowed from Swedish Birgitta.
Proper noun
[edit]Birgitta
- a female given name
Related terms
[edit]Faroese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Birgitta f
- a female given name
Usage notes
[edit]Matronymics
- son of Birgitta: Birgittuson
- daughter of Birgitta: Birgittudóttir
Declension
[edit]Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Birgitta |
Accusative | Birgittu |
Dative | Birgittu |
Genitive | Birgittu |
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Birgitta
- a female given name
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Birgitta (Kotus type 9*C/kala, tt-t gradation) | |||
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nominative | Birgitta | Birgitat | |
genitive | Birgitan | Birgittojen | |
partitive | Birgittaa | Birgittoja | |
illative | Birgittaan | Birgittoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Birgitta | Birgitat | |
accusative | nom. | Birgitta | Birgitat |
gen. | Birgitan | ||
genitive | Birgitan | Birgittojen Birgittain rare | |
partitive | Birgittaa | Birgittoja | |
inessive | Birgitassa | Birgitoissa | |
elative | Birgitasta | Birgitoista | |
illative | Birgittaan | Birgittoihin | |
adessive | Birgitalla | Birgitoilla | |
ablative | Birgitalta | Birgitoilta | |
allative | Birgitalle | Birgitoille | |
essive | Birgittana | Birgittoina | |
translative | Birgitaksi | Birgitoiksi | |
abessive | Birgitatta | Birgitoitta | |
instructive | — | Birgitoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- Birgitta is the 234th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,362 female individuals (and as a middle name to 12,175 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish Brigit. First recorded in Sweden in 1293. Cognate with English Bridget.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Birgitta c (genitive Birgittas)
- a female given name
- 1997, Majgull Axelsson, Aprilhäxan, Pan, published 2006, →ISBN, page 160:
- "Birgitta, Margareta och Christina", sa barnavårdstanten och skrattade ett kacklande litet besökarskratt. "Nu fattas det bara en liten Desirée för att det ska bli precis som på Haga slott..."
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
[edit]- Name of a fourteenth century Swedish saint. Also borne by Swedish royalty.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 175 016 females with the given name Birgitta living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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- Estonian terms derived from Old Irish
- Estonian terms borrowed from Swedish
- Estonian terms derived from Swedish
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian female given names
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese proper nouns
- Faroese feminine nouns
- Faroese given names
- Faroese female given names
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/irɡitːɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/irɡitːɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- Swedish terms derived from Old Irish
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Swedish terms with audio pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish given names
- Swedish female given names
- Swedish terms with quotations