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M.Sjostrom

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Nov 26, 2009, 6:59:38 PM11/26/09
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the name Iivari is Finnic rendition of the name which in Scandinavian languages is Iver, Ivarr, Ivar

I realize that the convention of Finnish to render long vowels with two of that vowel, may cause consternation in people who are from some other linguistical background.

Particularly, here, the first of those two vowels may be confused with L - just because the capital i is I and the small L is l
Of course, in the name Iivari, the first letter is capital i = I
and nowhere there in the entire name should be any L

The basic form is: Iivari
male patronymic: Iivarinpoika
female patronymic: Iivarintyt�r
* no L anywhere there


Hovite

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Nov 28, 2009, 6:21:20 AM11/28/09
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On Nov 26, 11:59 pm, "M.Sjostrom" <q...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I realize that the convention of Finnish to render long vowels with two of that vowel, may cause consternation in people who are from some other linguistical background.

This was also done in early Latin, hence Maarcus for classical Marcus.
The minuscule form of the Greek letter omega and the English w show
that they also evolved from doubled letters.

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