1) Character in the Kalevala 2) Finnish feminine given name 3) Finnish girl name 4) Finnish-language opera 5) Hokkaido native 6) Japanese aborigine 7) Japanese primitive 8) Opera by Erkki Melartin 9) Primitive Japanese
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[given name] The name Aino, meaning `only` in Finnish, was invented by Elias Lönnrot, who composed Kalevala. In this epic poem, Aino (mythology) is a beautiful girl who drowns herself rather than marry the elderly Väinämöinen. In the original poems, she is mentioned as the `only daughter` (aino tyttö). ==National romanticism== During t...
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[mythology] Aino is a figure in the Finnish national epic Kalevala. It relates that she was the beautiful sister of Joukahainen. Her brother, having lost a singing contest to the storied Väinämöinen, promised Aino`s `hands and feet` in marriage if Väinämöinen would save him from drowning in the swamp into which Joukahainen had been th...
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[opera] Aino is an opera by Erkki Melartin, composed in 1912 to a libretto by Jalmari Finne. The opera is based on the Kalevala, more specifically on the character of Aino. Its music shows the influence of Richard Wagner. ==Synopsis== Väinö, a godly figure and the son of Luonnotar, wants to taste the pleasures of mortals. He does so with ...
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• (n.) One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.
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Ai'no noun [ Said to be the native name for man.] One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.
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