{"id":18556,"date":"2023-03-17T09:48:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18556"},"modified":"2023-03-17T09:48:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T16:48:15","slug":"how-to-pronounce-finnish-moomin-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2023\/03\/17\/how-to-pronounce-finnish-moomin-names\/","title":{"rendered":"How to pronounce Finnish Moomin names"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

A video about how to pronounce the original Finnish names of many of the Moomin characters<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

(12-min video, from August, 2022; from @KatChatsFinnish, a channel intended as a resource for English speakers who are learning Finnish.)<\/p>\r\n

If I understood right, the person who made the video doesn\u2019t know some of the characters\u2019 English names; at any rate, most of the English names aren\u2019t included in the video. So here\u2019s a list of the characters included:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n
Finnish<\/th>\r\n English<\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Muumipeikko<\/td>\r\n Moomintroll<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Muumimamma<\/td>\r\n Moominmamma<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Muumipappa<\/td>\r\n Moominpappa<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Niiskuneiti<\/td>\r\n Snork Maiden<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Nuuskamuikkunen<\/td>\r\n Snufkin<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Pikku Myy<\/td>\r\n Little My*<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Nipsu<\/td>\r\n Sniff<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Hattivatit<\/td>\r\n Hattifatteners<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Hemuli<\/td>\r\n The Hemulen<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Haisuli<\/td>\r\n Stinky**<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
M\u00f6rk\u00f6<\/td>\r\n The Groke<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

*The search that led me to this video was an attempt to find out how to pronounce Little My<\/a>\u2019s name, both in Finnish and in English. Turns out that she was named after the Greek letter mu<\/i>; for the Finnish pronunciation of Myy<\/i>, see the video. In English, it turns out that her name is pronounced like the English word my<\/i> (\/ma\u026a\/), rhyming with the English word hi<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n

**Stinky<\/a> didn\u2019t appear in the books that have been translated into English, but did appear in the comic strip and in Jansson\u2019s 1980 picture book An Unwanted Guest<\/a><\/cite>, which hasn\u2019t been translated into English.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages","category-names","category-pronunciation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18556"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18562,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions\/18562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}