Nyyrikki.
A forest spirit, son of Tapio in the Kalevala.
Meaning & usage
A forest spirit, son of Tapio in the Kalevala.
a male given name
Where this word comes from
Uncertain root + -ikki. Older names include Nyrkes (attested as Nyrckes [Agricola 1551]), Nyrkys, Nyrkis. The word was probably adapted into the aforementioned suffix for poetic reasons. Krohn (1914) considers the name to originate from a variant of Jyrki (Saint George). Harva (1948) rejects this and claims origin from a lost term perhaps originally meaning "squirrel". Haavio (1959) in turn thinks -lk- instead of -rk- - so Nylkys - might have been original. This would in turn originate from nylkeä (“to skin, flay”), a byname given to Saint Bartholomew due to his fate (Nylky-Bartolomeus). The given name was adopted from the Kalevala, and was first proposed in 1865.
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