Pieksämäki
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English
Proper noun
Pieksämäki
- A town and municipality in South Savonia, Finland.
Finnish
Etymology
pieksä-/piekse- (“to beat, strike”) + -mä. mäki (“hill”) has later been introduced folk-etymologically through the inflected forms. Originally used for the lake (*Pieksämäjärvi), referring to the strong waves crashing against the shores, as the lake is relatively large and does not have many islands.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pieksämäki
Declension
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Pieksämäki" is Pieksämäellä.
| Inflection of Pieksämäki (Kotus type 7*D/ovi, k-∅ gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Pieksämäki | — | |
| genitive | Pieksämäen | — | |
| partitive | Pieksämäkeä | — | |
| illative | Pieksämäkeen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Pieksämäki | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Pieksämäki | — |
| gen. | Pieksämäen | ||
| genitive | Pieksämäen | — | |
| partitive | Pieksämäkeä | — | |
| inessive | Pieksämäessä | — | |
| elative | Pieksämäestä | — | |
| illative | Pieksämäkeen | — | |
| adessive | Pieksämäellä | — | |
| ablative | Pieksämäeltä | — | |
| allative | Pieksämäelle | — | |
| essive | Pieksämäkenä | — | |
| translative | Pieksämäeksi | — | |
| abessive | Pieksämäettä | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
Descendants
- → English: Pieksämäki
- → Swedish: Pieksämäki
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN