Oulu
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Oulu
See also: Ōulù
English
Etymology
Proper noun
Oulu
- A city in northern Finland.
- A town in Wisconsin, in the United States.
- A lake in northern Finland.
Synonyms
Translations
city in Finland
Finnish
Etymology
Probably from the dialectal term oulu (“floodwater”),[1] a Sami borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Samic *oalē (“waterway”). Alternatively, the aforementioned Samic term might be borrowed from Finnish, which would rather derive from another Samic term, *võvl(V), in turn from earlier *votl- (compare to the name of the Vodla river in Russia), perhaps a Paleo-European substrate borrowing.[2]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Oulu
- Oulu (the capital city of North 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 Oulu" is Oulussa.
| Inflection of Oulu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Oulu | — | |
| genitive | Oulun | — | |
| partitive | Oulua | — | |
| illative | Ouluun | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Oulu | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Oulu | — |
| gen. | Oulun | ||
| genitive | Oulun | — | |
| partitive | Oulua | — | |
| inessive | Oulussa | — | |
| elative | Oulusta | — | |
| illative | Ouluun | — | |
| adessive | Oululla | — | |
| ablative | Oululta | — | |
| allative | Oululle | — | |
| essive | Ouluna | — | |
| translative | Ouluksi | — | |
| abessive | Oulutta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
References
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Finnish Oulu.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Oulu n (indeclinable)
- Oulu (the capital city and municipality of North Ostrobothnia, Finland)
Further reading
- Oulu in PWN's encyclopedia