Etymology

Lemminkäinen

Today it means: Lemminkäinen of Kalevala; the young, handsome, charming, but aloof legendary hero of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala. Full definition →

Finnish Lemminkäinen ← Proto-Finnic *lempi
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The story

  1. Proto-Finnic · derived from*lempi
  2. Finnish · borrowed fromLemminkäinen
  3. English todayLemminkäinen

Borrowed from Finnish Lemminkäinen, a proper name derived from lempi (“love”) from Proto-Finnic *lempi.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.