Etymology
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huopa- + lahti. Originally a Tavastian name *Haapalaksi (from haapa + laksi, the original form of lahti). This name was borrowed into Swedish *Håplax (with the standard Swedish vowel shift /aː/ → /oː/). This form and the current Swedish form Hoplax (/-uː-/, through spelling pronunciation) have then been reborrowed back into Finnish. While the latter component was correctly recognized as lahti, the initial one was mistakenly - or rather folk-etymologically - interpreted as huopa.[1]
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈhuo̯pɑˌlɑhti/, [ˈhuo̞̯pɑ̝ˌlɑ̝xt̪i]
- Rhymes: -ɑhti
- Syllabification(key): Huo‧pa‧lah‧ti
Proper noun
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Huopalahti
- A former municipality of Uusimaa, Finland, merged into Helsinki in 1946
- An inhabited area in Helsinki
Declension
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The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.
Derived terms
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References
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- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN