Kuopio
English edit
Etymology edit
Proper noun edit
Kuopio
- A city and municipality of the Northern Savonia region, in eastern Finland.
Translations edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From a medieval spoken form of the Russian given name Прокопий (Prokopij), originally as an anthroponym. The town could have been named after this through a family name by early settlers, or used by the owners of hunting grounds once located in the same region.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Kuopio
- Kuopio (a city and municipality of the Northern Savonia region, in eastern Finland)
- a Finnish surname
Usage notes edit
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kuopio" is Kuopiossa.
Declension edit
Inflection of Kuopio (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Kuopio | Kuopiot | ||
genitive | Kuopion | Kuopioiden Kuopioitten | ||
partitive | Kuopiota | Kuopioita | ||
illative | Kuopioon | Kuopioihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Kuopio | Kuopiot | ||
accusative | nom. | Kuopio | Kuopiot | |
gen. | Kuopion | |||
genitive | Kuopion | Kuopioiden Kuopioitten | ||
partitive | Kuopiota | Kuopioita | ||
inessive | Kuopiossa | Kuopioissa | ||
elative | Kuopiosta | Kuopioista | ||
illative | Kuopioon | Kuopioihin | ||
adessive | Kuopiolla | Kuopioilla | ||
ablative | Kuopiolta | Kuopioilta | ||
allative | Kuopiolle | Kuopioille | ||
essive | Kuopiona | Kuopioina | ||
translative | Kuopioksi | Kuopioiksi | ||
abessive | Kuopiotta | Kuopioitta | ||
instructive | — | Kuopioin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Statistics edit
- The surname Kuopio belongs to 90 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References edit
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
Kuopio
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Finnish Kuopio.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Kuopio n (indeclinable)
- Kuopio (a city and municipality of Northern Savonia, Finland)