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Finnish form of surname

Post by IwantToLiveInFinland » Sat Oct 04, 2014 3:43 pm

Hello, my surname is Paur, this surname is from Bauer. So I want to know finnish form of surname Bauer (farmer, peasant). Thank sou very much :)



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Re: Finnish form of surname

Post by Pursuivant » Sat Oct 04, 2014 8:24 pm

Well, it would be mangled on the tongue so a "Bauer" would come "Pauri" or "Pauriainen"... Cf "Pakarinen" from "Bagare" (baker)... Finnish loves the vowels on the end.

As far as "Sinelmä" says, there is a (protected) surname "Talonpoika" but its not a common one.... ( in England there was "Younghusband" who went to Lhasa, in Finland as a farmer you understand what the "young husband" is but we use the word they use in Estonia for "farmhand" as the "married groom" whrreas in English you talk of "animal husbandry" and it doesn't mean welsh traditions...
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Re: Finnish form of surname

Post by Pursuivant » Sat Oct 04, 2014 8:27 pm

finnish form of surname Bauer (farmer, peasant).
Paskiainen :twisted: :lol:
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Re: Finnish form of surname

Post by CH » Sun Oct 05, 2014 11:31 am

tummansininen wrote: The Rasmus had a song with a guy in it named Pauri
That's actually a pretty good one for OP. That's what his last name would end up in Finland anyway... take a foreign sounding word and add an i to it at the end, and you are good to go!

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Post by Pursuivant » Sun Oct 05, 2014 11:44 am

What you need to go find first is from the VRK pages if that name already exists. You can't "take" a surname just like that.
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Re: Finnish form of surname

Post by Pursuivant » Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:35 am

I think there is still an unrepealed section in the criminal code stating "if someone seduces a virgin to marry him, misrepresenting his name, his class or rank.... " ;)
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Re: Finnish form of surname

Post by betelgeuse » Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:42 pm

Pursuivant wrote:I think there is still an unrepealed section in the criminal code stating "if someone seduces a virgin to marry him, misrepresenting his name, his class or rank.... " ;)
Don't even need to be a virgin.

http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/1 ... 039001#L18
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Re: Finnish form of surname

Post by Pursuivant » Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:32 pm

Also:
Jos joku, ottamalla väärän nimen taikka muulla vilpillisellä menettelyllä, on hankkinut itselleen perinnön taikka muun sukuoikeuden; tuomittakoon kuritushuoneeseen korkeintaan viideksi vuodeksi ja kansalaisluottamuksensa menettäneeksi, taikka, jos asianhaarat ovat erittäin lieventävät, vankeuteen vähintään kuudeksi kuukaudeksi.

Though most of the "good stuff" has been repealed. If you can, go to a library and get a 1950's lawbook and read

43 LUKU
Hyviä tapoja koskevain määräysten rikkomisesta

You get all kinds of fun stuff. Like bans of witches.
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