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English
Proper noun
Kauklahti
- A district of Espoo municipality, Uusimaa, Finland.
Finnish
Etymology
With syncope (probably through influence from the Swedish name Köklax) from *Kaukalaksi, from *kauka (“long”) (in modern Finnish kauko- (“far, distant”)) + *laksi (“bay”) (older form of lahti).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kauklahti
- A district of Espoo
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kauklahti" is Kauklahdessa.
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [The Book of Finnish Place Names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN