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Menja
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Usage
Old Norse
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Norse name meaning 'slave' [1] [2]
Related Names
| Menja | ♀ |
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Matronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Menjuson |
|
Female
| Menjudóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Menja |
| Genitive: | Menjas |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Menja |
| Genitive: | Menjan |
| Partitive: | Menjaa |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Menja |
| Accusative: | Menju |
| Dative: | Menju |
| Genitive: | Menju |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Menja |
| Genitive: | Menjas |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Finland: ca 1970 [3]
- Sweden: 2003 [4]
- Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 10 August 2022 [5]
Norse Mythology
- Menja and Fenja are two giantess serving girls who turn the mill-stone of the mythical mill Grotti in the Grottasǫngr [2]
Trivia
- Menja is also used as an Icelandic horse name
Statistics
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Menja.
References
- ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
- ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
- ↑ Ratsit.se https://www.ratsit.se/
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is