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Finnish
Etymology
puna (“red”) + vuori (“mountain”), a kind of translation of the Swedish name Rödbergen, Rödberget. The name is a reference to reddish sea cliffs in the area. The name was originally in the plural both in Swedish and Finnish.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Punavuori
- A neighborhood of Helsinki
Declension
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