Lyylikki

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Ingrian/Izhorian (Russia/Finland)

Meaning

an Ingrian feminine name of Finnic origin, related to the Finnish lyyli (a wave, or rippling motion), and carrying the endearment suffix -kki that is characteristic of intimate Finnic naming; Ingrian folk songs, the laulut, preserved in the collections of Finnish folklore scholars who visited Ingrian villages in the nineteenth century before Russification intensified, contain numerous women's names of this lyrical type, which evoke the natural landscape of rivers, marshes, and forests of the Karelian isthmus; the name is a living remnant of an oral culture nearly extinguished by forced assimilation

Gender

female