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Finnish
Etymology
Originally *Madelahti, from made + lahti. The original Finnish d sound /ð/ was borrowed into Swedish dh, which was later regularly lost, and this form was then reborrowed back into Finnish and folk-etymologically interpreted as maa + lahti.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Maalahti
- Malax (a municipality of Ostrobothnia, Finland)
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Maalahti" is Maalahdessa.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [The Book of Finnish Place Names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN