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hello,
I'm looking of these
FINNISH surname's meaning,
so, i need your help..
(P.S and i added some
Additional assumptions, too)
1. VIREN
(surname of Lasse Virén(1949~),
former olympic marathoner,
and I really want to find
this surname's meaning)
2. VÄYRYNEN
(I guess that this surname is
some finnish personal name's patronymic,
because it has a
SUFFIX '-nen', that means 'son of'.)
3. NIEMIMÄKI
(niemi ‘peninsula’, ‘headland’ + mäki ‘hill’)
but i want to real correct meaning of that)
does anyone know these
FINNISH surname's real meaning
and respond it, please?
I'm looking of these
FINNISH surname's meaning,
so, i need your help..
(P.S and i added some
Additional assumptions, too)
1. VIREN
(surname of Lasse Virén(1949~),
former olympic marathoner,
and I really want to find
this surname's meaning)
2. VÄYRYNEN
(I guess that this surname is
some finnish personal name's patronymic,
because it has a
SUFFIX '-nen', that means 'son of'.)
3. NIEMIMÄKI
(niemi ‘peninsula’, ‘headland’ + mäki ‘hill’)
but i want to real correct meaning of that)
does anyone know these
FINNISH surname's real meaning
and respond it, please?
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Unfortunately Virén and Väyrynen don't mean anything. -nen is a very common suffix with Finnish surnames and it can mean several thing. Väyry(nen) might have meant something in old Finnish but nothing in modern days. The Finnish language doesn't use é so Virén is probably not a Finnish surname in origin. It might be Swedish, Estonian or German. You already figured out the meaning for Niemimäki, it literally is just two words together: peninsula + hill.
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