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Ina
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Appendix:Variations of "ina"
English
Etymology
Short form of given names ending in -ina, e.g. Georgina, Christina, Wilhelmina.
Proper noun
en female Latin.
en 1935 Winthrop Ames What Shall We Name the Baby? Simon and Schuster New York 18 Miss Ina Claire tells me that half her acquaintances call her "Eenah" and the other half "Eynah". She answers docilely to either.
en 1995 Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh 0224038141 139 The eldest, originally called Christina in spite of her Jewish father's protests, eventually had her name sliced in half. "Stop sulking, Abe," Aurora commanded. "From now on she's plain Ina without the Christ." So poor Ina grew up with only half a handle, and when the second child was born a year later matters were made worse because this time Aurora insisted on "Inamorata". Abraham protested again: "People will confuse," he said plaintively. "And this Ina-more it is like saying she is Ina-plus."
Translations
female given name
Danish: da Ina
Finnish: fi Iina
Latvian: lv Ina f
Lithuanian: lt Ina f
Norwegian: no Ine, no Ina
Swedish: sv Ina
Anagrams
en ain Ian nai AIN Nia Ani Ain NIA ani ain' ANI -ian nia ain
Albanian
Proper noun
f
sq female
Danish
Etymology
Short form of da Wilhelmina and similar names.
Proper noun
da proper noun
da female
Dutch
Pronunciation
nl /ˈi.naː/
nl Nl-Ina.ogg
nl Ina
Proper noun
f
nl female
Faroese
Etymology
Short form of names ending with fo -ina, such as Carlina genus, en Elina, etc.
Proper noun
fo proper noun f
fo female
Usage notes
f Inuson Inudóttir
Declension
Ina Inu Inu Inu
Latin
Etymology
la Ina :der grc:Ἴνα + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ina<1.loc>
An inland town in the south of Sicily mentioned by Ptolemy
Declension
Ina<1.loc>
Derived terms
la Inensis
References
la Italy Towns
Latvian
Etymology
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1894. From names ending in -ina, and from lv Inese.
Proper noun
lv proper noun f
lv female
References
Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, 5-7966-0278-0
Population Register of Latvia: Ina was the only given name of 2735 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
Lithuanian
Etymology
From names ending in -ina, such as lt Katarina and lt Regina, and from lt Ineza.
Proper noun
lt proper noun f
lt female
Norwegian
Etymology
Short form of names ending in -ina, such as no Karolina, no Katarina, no Nikolina.
Proper noun
no proper noun
no female Ine
Old English
Pronunciation
Ina
Proper noun
m
ang male
Polish
pl:
Etymology
pl 1
Pronunciation
-ina
Proper noun
f
pl river in northwest c/Poland Ina
Declension
s
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
Short form of names ending in -ina, such as sv Sabina, sv Severina, and of sv Inez. First recorded in Sweden in 1836.
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Ina.wav
Proper noun
c
sv female
Anagrams
sv ain nia