Lohtaja
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Finnish
Etymology
From Sami (compare Northern Sami luokta (“bay”)) + a suffix -ja[1] (found in some place names, possibly from Proto-Finnic *-ja).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Lohtaja
- A former municipality in Central Ostrobothnia, Finland; now part of Kokkola.
- A village in the municipality of Kokkola.
- a Finnish surname transferred from the place name
Declension
| Inflection of Lohtaja (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Lohtaja | Lohtajat | |
| genitive | Lohtajan | Lohtajien | |
| partitive | Lohtajaa | Lohtajia | |
| illative | Lohtajaan | Lohtajiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Lohtaja | Lohtajat | |
| accusative | nom. | Lohtaja | Lohtajat |
| gen. | Lohtajan | ||
| genitive | Lohtajan | Lohtajien Lohtajain rare | |
| partitive | Lohtajaa | Lohtajia | |
| inessive | Lohtajassa | Lohtajissa | |
| elative | Lohtajasta | Lohtajista | |
| illative | Lohtajaan | Lohtajiin | |
| adessive | Lohtajalla | Lohtajilla | |
| ablative | Lohtajalta | Lohtajilta | |
| allative | Lohtajalle | Lohtajille | |
| essive | Lohtajana | Lohtajina | |
| translative | Lohtajaksi | Lohtajiksi | |
| abessive | Lohtajatta | Lohtajitta | |
| instructive | — | Lohtajin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Lohtaja" is Lohtajalla.
Statistics
- The surname Lohtaja belongs to 81 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