Etymology
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ori + pää, perhaps originally the name of the hill east of it (now Orivuori).[1]
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈoriˌpæː/, [ˈo̞riˌpæː]
- Rhymes: -æː
- Syllabification(key): O‧ri‧pää
Proper noun
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Oripää
- A municipality of Southwest Finland.
Declension
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The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Oripää" is Oripäässä.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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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