Sola

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Sola (plural Solas)

1. A surname.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sola”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears

Borrowed from Norwegian Sola.

Sola

1. A municipality of Rogaland, Norway.

< sola

• IPA^(key): /ˈsolɑ/, [ˈs̠o̞lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -olɑ
• Syllabification^(key): So‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): So‧la

Sola

1. a Finnish surname

• Sola is the 3625^th (tied with 12 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 211 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Sola

1. alternative form of Sora (Sora); Rōmaji transcription of そら

Appears as Sóla in Old Norse literature. This could indicate a nominative form Sóli m. May be related to the verb svelle (“to swell”), referring to the slight elevation in the landscape of the medieval church.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /²suː.lɑ/

Sola

1. Sola (a municipality of Rogaland, Norway)

• (Bokmål): losa, sloa, sola
• (Nynorsk): losa, sloa, sola

Possibly from Old English sōl (“sun”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.lɑ/

Sōla m

1. a male given name

Weak:

• Liber Vitae Ecclesiae Dunelmensis: Nec Non Obituaria Duo Ejusdem Ecclesiae (Durham Liber Vitae) page 29, line 4, recorded as "Sola".

• IPA^(key): /ˈsola/ [ˈso.la]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: So‧la

Sola m or f by sense

1. a surname