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Your Finnish name
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RE: Your Finnish name
March 19, 2014 at 12:22 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7UFq0PYhYI

I wonder what that particular Finn's name would mean.
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RE: Your Finnish name
March 19, 2014 at 12:26 pm (This post was last modified: March 19, 2014 at 12:26 pm by Kayenneh.)
(March 19, 2014 at 12:22 pm)c172 Wrote: I wonder what that particular Finn's name would mean.

Juha is short for Juhani, which of course is the Finnish version of Johannes, thus 'Yahweh is merciful'. Kankkunen is slang for hangover, if it has any other meaning, I do not know it.
So, Juha Kankkunen means, 'oh lord have mercy, my head is splitting!' Big Grin
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#13
RE: Your Finnish name
March 19, 2014 at 12:32 pm
Ritva Ahtisaari

Ritva = hanging branch
Ahtisaari = island of the god of water
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RE: Your Finnish name
March 19, 2014 at 12:55 pm (This post was last modified: March 19, 2014 at 1:41 pm by Jackalope.)
Plugged in my real name -

Terho = acorn
Koski = white water

Surprisingly, that's actually easier to spell than my Anglicized last name.
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RE: Your Finnish name
March 19, 2014 at 1:00 pm
(March 19, 2014 at 12:55 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Kerho = acorn

Huh.. That's odd, because terho is acorn, kerho is club Tongue
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#16
RE: Your Finnish name
March 19, 2014 at 1:20 pm
Pyry Metsälä

PYRY — A blizzard
METSÄLÄ — Woods

A blizzard in the woods?
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RE: Your Finnish name
March 19, 2014 at 1:23 pm
ALLI — A Finnish water bird, a wild duck

KORPELA — Wilderness

This makes more sense than my actual name, in that my actual last name has no discernible meaning or origin.
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RE: Your Finnish name
March 19, 2014 at 1:30 pm (This post was last modified: March 19, 2014 at 1:30 pm by Marsellus Wallace.)
Ibrahim awamry

Ibarhim = you know him Tongue

awamry = doesn't mean anything .
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#19
RE: Your Finnish name
March 19, 2014 at 1:40 pm
Not happy:

My real name yields:

Tapio - ancient King of the forest (that's ok)

Jokela - Rivery (river-like perhaps? sounds like a small pun to me).
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RE: Your Finnish name
March 19, 2014 at 1:41 pm
Kaleva Ilvesniemi
KALEVA — A mythical giant
ILVESNIEMI — Lynx cape
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