Vesa
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The given name is a 19th-century invention from vesa (“young tree”). The surname is older, derived from names of farms.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Vesa
- a male given name
- 2003, Johanna Sinisalo, Sankarit, Tammi, →ISBN, page 12:
- Vesa antaisi mitä tahansa että häntä sanottaisiin Veskuksi tai Vesseksi tai vaikka edes helvetti vieköön Vesseliksi, mutta vain Vessa ja sen versiot sinkuvat ilmassa ja kaikuvat korvakäytävissä, silloinkin kun niitä ei huudeta. Vaikka hänen sukunimensä on Kuningas ja siitä saisi vaikka mitä.
- Vesa would give anything just to be called Vesku or Vesse or damn it even Vesseli, but only Vessa and its variants fly through the air and echo in the ear canals, even when not called. Even if his surname is Kuningas [king] and that could pay for anything.
- 2011, Heli Laaksonen, Peippo vei, Otava, →ISBN, page 24:
- ei jaks kiältäytyy ko joka metänpuu kysy kummiks mukulalles,
onne
Ritva, Virpi, Varpu, Urpu, Visa, Vesa, Syränkäpy
onne
toivotta
karhu aa) ja karhu pee).- ain't gonna say no when 'a tree' asked to be the godparent for your kid
grats
Ritva, Virpi, Varpu, Urpu, Visa, Vesa, Syränkäpy
grats
by
bear A and bear P
- ain't gonna say no when 'a tree' asked to be the godparent for your kid
- 2013, Minna Lindgren, Kuolema Ehtoolehdossa, Teos, →ISBN, page 8:
- Sinähän niin pidät Terosta, Siiri. Oliko hänen nimensä Tero vai Pasi? Oletteko huomanneet, että nuorten miesten nimet ovat nykyään tällaisia kirveeniskuja: Tero, Pasi, Vesa, Tomi.
- Seeing as you like Tero so much, Siiri... was he named Tero or Pasi? Haven't you noticed that all young men have these names that are like axe blows: Tero, Pasi, Vesa, Tomi.
- a Finnish surname from landscape
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Vesa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Vesa | Vesat | |
genitive | Vesan | Vesojen | |
partitive | Vesaa | Vesoja | |
illative | Vesaan | Vesoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Vesa | Vesat | |
accusative | nom. | Vesa | Vesat |
gen. | Vesan | ||
genitive | Vesan | Vesojen Vesain rare | |
partitive | Vesaa | Vesoja | |
inessive | Vesassa | Vesoissa | |
elative | Vesasta | Vesoista | |
illative | Vesaan | Vesoihin | |
adessive | Vesalla | Vesoilla | |
ablative | Vesalta | Vesoilta | |
allative | Vesalle | Vesoille | |
essive | Vesana | Vesoina | |
translative | Vesaksi | Vesoiksi | |
abessive | Vesatta | Vesoitta | |
instructive | — | Vesoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms
[edit]- (surnames) Vesala, Vesalainen, Vesanen
Statistics
[edit]- Vesa is the 46th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 14,971 male individuals (and as a middle name to 2,757 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
- Vesa is the 766th (tied with 1 other surname) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 1,144 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.