Kuusamo
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Finnish
Etymology
kuusi + -as + -mo, through a dialectal kuusas (“young spruce”), possibly (at least in North Ostrobothnia) through (Viena) Karelian[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kuusamo
- A municipality of North Ostrobothnia, Finland.
- a Finnish surname transferred from the place name
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kuusamo" is Kuusamossa.
| Inflection of Kuusamo (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Kuusamo | Kuusamot | |
| genitive | Kuusamon | Kuusamojen Kuusamoiden Kuusamoitten | |
| partitive | Kuusamoa | Kuusamoja Kuusamoita | |
| illative | Kuusamoon | Kuusamoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Kuusamo | Kuusamot | |
| accusative | nom. | Kuusamo | Kuusamot |
| gen. | Kuusamon | ||
| genitive | Kuusamon | Kuusamojen Kuusamoiden Kuusamoitten | |
| partitive | Kuusamoa | Kuusamoja Kuusamoita | |
| inessive | Kuusamossa | Kuusamoissa | |
| elative | Kuusamosta | Kuusamoista | |
| illative | Kuusamoon | Kuusamoihin | |
| adessive | Kuusamolla | Kuusamoilla | |
| ablative | Kuusamolta | Kuusamoilta | |
| allative | Kuusamolle | Kuusamoille | |
| essive | Kuusamona | Kuusamoina | |
| translative | Kuusamoksi | Kuusamoiksi | |
| abessive | Kuusamotta | Kuusamoitta | |
| instructive | — | Kuusamoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
Descendants
Statistics
- The surname Kuusamo belongs to 58 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN