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Ranua.

Ranua (a municipality of Lapland, Finland)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈrɑnuɑ/[ˈrɑ̝nuɑ̝]

  1. Ranua (a municipality of Lapland, Finland)

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  2. a Finnish surname

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Where this word comes from

Originally a farm name (whence the name of the town and the surname). Possibly from dialectal Tavastian ranu, kranu (“bad, stunted, runty, weak”), perhaps through the name for a poor field or bog, of unknown further origin.

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