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| Miss Proximus |
Hyvää iltapäivää!!
Nimeni on Josta ja olen kotoisin Alankomaat (Holland?)
Anyway, I hope someone can help me! I am looking for the orgins of my name, and when I typed "josta" in the google search engine, I stumbled upon numerous Finnish sites using the word. I tried to find out what it means but had no luck!
Can anyone tell me what Josta means in Finnish, and whether you use this name as well?
Kiitos (thanks?)
Greetings, Josta |
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| Nuutti |
Ah, this is hard one to translate..
Finnish word "joka" is a pronoun that inflects to "josta". It can be traslated as "that".
For example:
Paikka joka on tuolla = The place that is there.
(Paikka=place, joka=that, on=is, tuolla=there)
Paikka josta tulimme = The place that we came from.
(tulimme = we came)
In later example we don't need corresponding word for english word "from" because it's included in finnish word "josta".
So it kind of means "out of something".
Finnish is a really difficult language btw. :nervous: |
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| Miss Proximus |
Thanks Nuutti :)
How funny that my name can be such an 'average' word :) And I agree, Finnish must be so difficult! But it is also a very fascinating language, as it has turned out to be more related to Hungarian than to any of the other Scandinavian languages! I wonder how these two different nations could be connected :) |
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| Nuutti |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Proximus
Thanks Nuutti :)
How funny that my name can be such an 'average' word :) And I agree, Finnish must be so difficult! But it is also a very fascinating language, as it has turned out to be more related to Hungarian than to any of the other Scandinavian languages! I wonder how these two different nations could be connected :) |
Yeah if I remember right Finnish and Hungarian languages belong to the same language family. While other Scandinavian languages have origins in German languages. The structure of Swedish is closer to English.
Joka/josta can also be used to refer to a person:
DJ joka on kuuluisa = DJ who is famous
DJ josta tuli kuuluisa = DJ who became famous
The closest womans name to "Josta" we have is "Asta" but I don't think they have anything to do with eachother. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Proximus
Thanks Nuutti :)
How funny that my name can be such an 'average' word :) And I agree, Finnish must be so difficult! But it is also a very fascinating language, as it has turned out to be more related to Hungarian than to any of the other Scandinavian languages! I wonder how these two different nations could be connected :) |
Both Finnish and Hungarians are originated from the same area around the Ural mountains in Russia so yes, we are actually related to the Hungarians :) |
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