Puumala
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Finnish
Etymology
From Puuma- + -la; possibly from a Karelian vernacular form of Russian Памфил (Pamfil).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Puumala
- A municipality of Southern Savonia, Finland.
- a Finnish surname
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Puumala" is Puumalassa.
| Inflection of Puumala (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Puumala | Puumalat | ||
| genitive | Puumalan | Puumaloiden Puumaloitten | ||
| partitive | Puumalaa | Puumaloita | ||
| illative | Puumalaan | Puumaloihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Puumala | Puumalat | ||
| accusative | nom. | Puumala | Puumalat | |
| gen. | Puumalan | |||
| genitive | Puumalan | Puumaloiden Puumaloitten Puumalain rare | ||
| partitive | Puumalaa | Puumaloita | ||
| inessive | Puumalassa | Puumaloissa | ||
| elative | Puumalasta | Puumaloista | ||
| illative | Puumalaan | Puumaloihin | ||
| adessive | Puumalalla | Puumaloilla | ||
| ablative | Puumalalta | Puumaloilta | ||
| allative | Puumalalle | Puumaloille | ||
| essive | Puumalana | Puumaloina | ||
| translative | Puumalaksi | Puumaloiksi | ||
| abessive | Puumalatta | Puumaloitta | ||
| instructive | — | Puumaloin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Descendants
Statistics
- Puumala is the 1560th (tied with 3 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 549 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.