Äänekoski
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Finnish
Etymology
ääne- + koski (“rapids”). According to Terho Itkonen, the ääne- element comes from a Sami root *eanē- "big", compare Northern Sami eanas (“most”), later corrupted by Finnic settlers into the word ääni (“sound”) (in the local dialect pronounced as eäni) and interpreted as referring to the sound of the rapids. The settlement is named after the rapids.
The toponym has been attested since c. 1455, Ænækoski laxefiskeri.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Äänekoski
- A town in central Finland.
Declension
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Äänekoski" is Äänekoskella.
| Inflection of Äänekoski (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Äänekoski | — | |
| genitive | Äänekosken | — | |
| partitive | Äänekoskea | — | |
| illative | Äänekoskeen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Äänekoski | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Äänekoski | — |
| gen. | Äänekosken | ||
| genitive | Äänekosken | — | |
| partitive | Äänekoskea | — | |
| inessive | Äänekoskessa | — | |
| elative | Äänekoskesta | — | |
| illative | Äänekoskeen | — | |
| adessive | Äänekoskella | — | |
| ablative | Äänekoskelta | — | |
| allative | Äänekoskelle | — | |
| essive | Äänekoskena | — | |
| translative | Äänekoskeksi | — | |
| abessive | Äänekosketta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN, page 531