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Finnish
Etymology
From hyvä (“good”) (perhaps through a given name) with the toponym suffix + -nka. The long vowel has been generalized by analogy from the locative forms, which often have a long vowel in the local Uusimaa dialects (*Hyvinkä > *Hyvinkääl).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hyvinkää
- A town in southern Finland, 50 km north of Helsinki
Declension
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Hyvinkää" is Hyvinkäällä.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN