Salla

Salla

1. A municipality of Lapland, Finland

• la-la-s, la-las, salal

From Northern Sami Salla. As a given name also inspired by Salli and Saara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlːɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝lːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Sal‧la

Salla

1. (uncountable) Salla (municipality)

   Synonym: (before 1936) Kuolajärvi

2. a female given name transferred from the place name
   • 2007, Esa Sariola: Valtakirja, →ISBN, page 7:

     Inkeri. Mitä varten niin pienellä tytöllä oli sellainen nimi? Minä tiesin, koska olin kysynyt. Nimi tuli Sallan isoäidiltä, eikä sillä hänen tietääkseen ollut mitään erityisempää merkitystä. Se oli vain kaunis nimi, jonka hän halusi säilyttää suvussa. Niinhän ne nimet kiertävät. Mutta kyllä sillä merkitys oli. Hänellä oli nimittäin myös isosetä, nimeltään Aunus, ja isotäti Viena. Aunus, Inkeri, Viena ja Salla, rajantakaista Karjalaa kaikki paitsi Salla, mutta sieltäkin oli Neuvostoliitto sodassa riistänyt ison palan. Historia eli pienessä tytössä, jonka hänen äitinsä oli omien isovanhempiensa esimerkin mukaan nimennyt kenties ajattelematta, että aikanaan nimi oli julistanut Suur-Suomea ja heimoaatetta, luultavasti heimosotiakin.

     Inkeri. What for did such a young girl have a name like that? I knew, since I had asked that question. The name came from Salla's grandmother, and as far as she knew, it didn't have any special meaning. It was just a beautiful name that she wanted to keep going in the family. That's how names tend to go, after all. But it did have a meaning. She also had a great uncle named Aunus, and a great aunt named Viena. Aunus, Inkeri, Viena and Salla, all in the ceded Karelia except for Salla, which too had had a large piece taken off it by the Soviets after the war. That little girl had a piece of history living in her, that her mother had named after her grandparents' example perhaps without thinking about how the name had once stood for Greater Finland and heimoaate, perhaps even for the Heimosodat.

3. a Finnish surname transferred from the place name

• (municipality): The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used when referring to a location; for example, "in Salla" is Sallassa.

• Salla is the 133^rd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,443 female individuals (and as a middle name to 504 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
• The surname Salla belongs to 221 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• other female names from places in Lapland: Saana, Inari

• Salla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• allas

Unknown. Has been compared to Lule Sami sálla (“crack, crevasse”), but the similarity may be a coincidence.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈsalːla/

Salˈla

1. Salla (a municipality of Finland)

• → Finnish: Salla

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland