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babynamesAnyone know how to pronounce the name "Aina"? According to BTN, it's Finnish and means "the only one". "In the Finnish epic the 'Kalevala' this is the name of a girl who drowns herself when she finds out she must marry the old man Väinämöinen." It's a lovely name, but I am not altogether sure of Finnish vowels.
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Date: 2009-05-22 05:38 pm (UTC)Yep, it's EYE-nah.
It doesn't specifically mean "the only one", but it's a variant of Aino (the girl in Kalevala) which originates from the word "ainoa", "the only one". It does mean "always", though. Aino would be prounounced the same but the end is a short o, like in "rock".
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Date: 2009-05-23 11:51 am (UTC)Thank you for weighing in on this. I was reeeally hoping it'd be EYE-nah, because, well, it just looks and sounds so pretty like that. Plus, like I said, I created a longer name using that as a root, if you will, and, well, any other pronunciation would've sent me back to the drawing board.
Fiction: where you do insane things to nice names.