Punkalaidun
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English
Proper noun
Punkalaidun
- A municipality of Pirkanmaa, Finland
Translations
municipality
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Finnish
Etymology
Originally the name of a river, from a compound *Punkalaitio, consisting of Old Norse bunga (“embankment, hill, elevation”) + Proto-Norse (*laidō, “route, way”). The latter half has later been folk-etymologically reinterpreted as laidun.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Punkalaidun
Declension
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Punkalaidun" is Punkalaitumella.
| Inflection of Punkalaidun (Kotus type 33*F/kytkin, t-d gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Punkalaidun | — | |
| genitive | Punkalaitumen | — | |
| partitive | Punkalaidunta | — | |
| illative | Punkalaitumeen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Punkalaidun | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Punkalaidun | — |
| gen. | Punkalaitumen | ||
| genitive | Punkalaitumen | — | |
| partitive | Punkalaidunta | — | |
| inessive | Punkalaitumessa | — | |
| elative | Punkalaitumesta | — | |
| illative | Punkalaitumeen | — | |
| adessive | Punkalaitumella | — | |
| ablative | Punkalaitumelta | — | |
| allative | Punkalaitumelle | — | |
| essive | Punkalaitumena | — | |
| translative | Punkalaitumeksi | — | |
| abessive | Punkalaitumetta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN