Ahvenanmaa
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Map of Åland (red) in Finland
Finnish
Etymology
Unclear; one theory derives the name from Proto-Norse ᚨᚺᚹᚨᛚᚨᚾᛞ (ahwaland, “water-land”), the first part of which the Finnic peoples would have associated with ahven (“perch”). According to the same theory the Swedish name of the islands, Åland, would come from the same origin.
Another theory, proposed by Schalin (2008), is that the word was originally borrowed from early Proto-Germanic *agwiōz (“archipelago”) into Proto-Finnic as *ahvëh or *ahvë- and then re-borrowed back into Proto-Norse as (ahwē) or (ahwe), which would later become *ā- in Old Swedish *āland > Swedish Åland.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ahvenanmaa
- Aland, Åland (archipelago and autonomous province of Finland located southwest of the Finnish mainland)
Declension
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Åland" is Ahvenanmaalla.
| Inflection of Ahvenanmaa (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | Ahvenanmaa | — | ||
| genitive | Ahvenanmaan | — | ||
| partitive | Ahvenanmaata | — | ||
| illative | Ahvenanmaahan | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Ahvenanmaa | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Ahvenanmaa | — | |
| gen. | Ahvenanmaan | |||
| genitive | Ahvenanmaan | — | ||
| partitive | Ahvenanmaata | — | ||
| inessive | Ahvenanmaassa | — | ||
| elative | Ahvenanmaasta | — | ||
| illative | Ahvenanmaahan | — | ||
| adessive | Ahvenanmaalla | — | ||
| ablative | Ahvenanmaalta | — | ||
| allative | Ahvenanmaalle | — | ||
| essive | Ahvenanmaana | — | ||
| translative | Ahvenanmaaksi | — | ||
| abessive | Ahvenanmaatta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Derived terms
compounds
References
- ^ Schalin, Johan (2008): Ahuen maa ja Alandh Sananjalka 50: 24–37.