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Ritola
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Finnish
Etymology
fi rito- la toponym, originally as an Ostrobothnian farm name. Possibly from fi rita through place names with the combining form fi rito-; compare fi Ritala.
sense 2 From Ville Ritola, a Finnish long-distance runner who won 8 Olympic medals in the 1920s.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi Finnish
fi humorous escape, flight used in the idiomatic expression fi ottaa ottaa Ritolat to run away, take to the hills to take the Ritolas
Declension
Ritol a
Statistics
dvv_20250813 623 1351 2
References
Anagrams
fi ailort orilta