Pelkosenniemi
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English
Proper noun
Pelkosenniemi
- A municipality of Lapland, Finland
Translations
municipality
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Finnish
Etymology
Pelkosen + niemi. Named after Paavali (Paavo) Matinpoika Pelkonen (Påhl Mattsson, 1624/1626—1715), the first settler, who built a farmstead named Pelkola; this in turn was used as the basis for the toponym.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pelkosenniemi
Declension
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Pelkosenniemi" is Pelkosenniemellä.
| Inflection of Pelkosenniemi (Kotus type 25/toimi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Pelkosenniemi | — | |
| genitive | Pelkosenniemen | — | |
| partitive | Pelkosennientä Pelkosenniemeä |
— | |
| illative | Pelkosenniemeen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Pelkosenniemi | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Pelkosenniemi | — |
| gen. | Pelkosenniemen | ||
| genitive | Pelkosenniemen | — | |
| partitive | Pelkosennientä Pelkosenniemeä |
— | |
| inessive | Pelkosenniemessä | — | |
| elative | Pelkosenniemestä | — | |
| illative | Pelkosenniemeen | — | |
| adessive | Pelkosenniemellä | — | |
| ablative | Pelkosenniemeltä | — | |
| allative | Pelkosenniemelle | — | |
| essive | Pelkosenniemenä | — | |
| translative | Pelkosenniemeksi | — | |
| abessive | Pelkosenniemettä | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: Pelkosenniemi
- → Swedish: Pelkosenniemi
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN