From touko + -la. The neighborhood in Helsinki is either a translation of Swedish Majstad (in which maj (“May”) was instead originally the name Maj) or more likely a reference to a nearby meadow on which the local students held a spring festival every May (note that May in Finnish is toukokuu).
Toukola
Inflection of Toukola (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Toukola | Toukolat | |
genitive | Toukolan | Toukoloiden Toukoloitten | |
partitive | Toukolaa | Toukoloita | |
illative | Toukolaan | Toukoloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Toukola | Toukolat | |
accusative | nom. | Toukola | Toukolat |
gen. | Toukolan | ||
genitive | Toukolan | Toukoloiden Toukoloitten Toukolain rare | |
partitive | Toukolaa | Toukoloita | |
inessive | Toukolassa | Toukoloissa | |
elative | Toukolasta | Toukoloista | |
illative | Toukolaan | Toukoloihin | |
adessive | Toukolalla | Toukoloilla | |
ablative | Toukolalta | Toukoloilta | |
allative | Toukolalle | Toukoloille | |
essive | Toukolana | Toukoloina | |
translative | Toukolaksi | Toukoloiksi | |
abessive | Toukolatta | Toukoloitta | |
instructive | — | Toukoloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.