name
Salme
SAL-meh
ˈsɑːlmɛListen
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Syllable breakdown
Salme
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Erzya (Russia/Mordovia)
- Meaning
- an Erzya feminine name with cognates across the Finno-Ugric world, appearing in Finnish and Estonian mythology as the name of a celestial daughter; in the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg, Salme is one of the daughters of the sky father who is wooed by the moon, the sun, and a hero; the Erzya share mythological motifs with other Finno-Ugric peoples, and names like Salme represent the ancient cultural continuum connecting the Mordvinic peoples of the Volga-Ural region to the wider family of Uralic civilisations stretching from the Urals to the Baltic and Arctic
- Gender
- female
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