Oinas

Oinas
Origin
Language(s)	Estonian, Finnish
Meaning	ram, wether (Ovis aries)
Region of origin	Baltic-Finnic linguistic area

Oinas is an Estonian and Finnish surname meaning "ram" or "wether" (Ovis aries).^[1]

Notable people bearing the surname Oinas include:

Aleksander Oinas (1887–1942), Estonian politician
Alma Ostra-Oinas (1886–1960), Estonian journalist, writer and politician
Asko Oinas (1929–2020), Finnish government official and Governor of Lapland
August Oinas (1898–1965), Estonian historian
Felix Oinas (1911–2004), Estonian folklorist, linguist, scholar and translator
Toivo Oinas (born 1954), Finnish singer
Valdar Oinas (born 1942), Estonian astrophysicist

References

^ Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2013). "The origins of stems of standard Estonian – a statistical overview" (PDF). Trames. 17 (67/62) (3): 273–300. doi:10.3176/tr.2013.3.04. Retrieved 13 April 2021.

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[Soosaar-1] Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2013). "The origins of stems of standard Estonian – a statistical overview" (PDF). Trames. 17 (67/62) (3): 273–300. doi:10.3176/tr.2013.3.04. Retrieved 13 April 2021.

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