Meilahti
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Finnish
Etymology
Mei- + lahti; from the byname/nickname of Meil-Bengt Jakobsson, who owned a farm called Mejlans in the area. Mejlans remains the Swedish name for the neighborhood today. The byname/nickname may be in reference to Meilby, a village around what is now Seutula. The Meil- part may be an anthroponym Meile from some German language.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Meilahti
- A neighborhood of Helsinki
Declension
| Inflection of Meilahti (Kotus type 7*F/ovi, t-d gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Meilahti | — | |
| genitive | Meilahden | — | |
| partitive | Meilahtea | — | |
| illative | Meilahteen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Meilahti | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Meilahti | — |
| gen. | Meilahden | ||
| genitive | Meilahden | — | |
| partitive | Meilahtea | — | |
| inessive | Meilahdessa | — | |
| elative | Meilahdesta | — | |
| illative | Meilahteen | — | |
| adessive | Meilahdella | — | |
| ablative | Meilahdelta | — | |
| allative | Meilahdelle | — | |
| essive | Meilahtena | — | |
| translative | Meilahdeksi | — | |
| abessive | Meilahdetta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN