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Finnish
Etymology
pyhä (“sacred”) + järvi (“lake”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpyhæˌjærʋi/,
- Rhymes: -ærʋi
- Syllabification(key): Py‧hä‧jär‧vi
Proper noun
Pyhäjärvi
- A town in North Ostrobothnia, Finland.
- Synonyms: (historical) Pyhäjärvi Ol, (historical) Pyhäsalmi
- A former municipality of Uusimaa, merged with Karkkila in 1969.
- Synonym: (historical) Pyhäjärvi Ul
- A former Finnish municipality in the Karelian Isthmus, now the Russian municipality Отрадное (Otradnoje).
- Synonyms: (historical) Pyhäjärvi Vl, (historical) Pyhäjärvi Vpl
- Any of a number of lakes in Finland.
- a Finnish surname
Usage notes
- (town, municipality): The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used when referring to a location; for example, "in Pyhäjärvi" is Pyhäjärvellä.
- The town in Northern Ostrobothnia was called Pyhäjärvi Ol until 1962, Pyhäjärvi in 1963-92, Pyhäsalmi in 1993-95 and again Pyhäjärvi from 1996 onwards.
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Statistics
- The surname Pyhäjärvi belongs to 249 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.