Kyrö
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Finnish
Etymology
Possibly from a dialectal geographical term kyrö, which could have originally referred to rocky ground.[1][2] However, the dialectal term is scarcely attested, which makes this uncertain. The surname is from the place name.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kyrö
- (historical) A rural municipality, split over time during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries into (among others) Isokyrö, Hämeenkyrö and Ikaalinen.
- a Finnish surname transferred from the place name
Declension
| Inflection of Kyrö (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Kyrö | Kyröt | |
| genitive | Kyrön | Kyröjen | |
| partitive | Kyröä | Kyröjä | |
| illative | Kyröön | Kyröihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Kyrö | Kyröt | |
| accusative | nom. | Kyrö | Kyröt |
| gen. | Kyrön | ||
| genitive | Kyrön | Kyröjen | |
| partitive | Kyröä | Kyröjä | |
| inessive | Kyrössä | Kyröissä | |
| elative | Kyröstä | Kyröistä | |
| illative | Kyröön | Kyröihin | |
| adessive | Kyröllä | Kyröillä | |
| ablative | Kyröltä | Kyröiltä | |
| allative | Kyrölle | Kyröille | |
| essive | Kyrönä | Kyröinä | |
| translative | Kyröksi | Kyröiksi | |
| abessive | Kyröttä | Kyröittä | |
| instructive | — | Kyröin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
compounds
Statistics
- Kyrö is the 1790th (tied with 4 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 477 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
- ^ Mikkonen, Pirjo, Paikkala, Sirkka (2000) Sukunimet, Helsinki: Otava, →ISBN
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN