Taivassalo
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Possibly by assimilation from an older *Taivalsalo, from taival + salo, or alternatively connected with töyväs, töykkä (“hill, knoll”)[1] (possibly related to töyräs in some way).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Taivassalo
- A municipality of Southwest Finland.
- a Finnish surname
Declension edit
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Taivassalo" is Taivassalossa.
Inflection of Taivassalo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Taivassalo | Taivassalot | ||
genitive | Taivassalon | Taivassalojen | ||
partitive | Taivassaloa | Taivassaloja | ||
illative | Taivassaloon | Taivassaloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Taivassalo | Taivassalot | ||
accusative | nom. | Taivassalo | Taivassalot | |
gen. | Taivassalon | |||
genitive | Taivassalon | Taivassalojen | ||
partitive | Taivassaloa | Taivassaloja | ||
inessive | Taivassalossa | Taivassaloissa | ||
elative | Taivassalosta | Taivassaloista | ||
illative | Taivassaloon | Taivassaloihin | ||
adessive | Taivassalolla | Taivassaloilla | ||
ablative | Taivassalolta | Taivassaloilta | ||
allative | Taivassalolle | Taivassaloille | ||
essive | Taivassalona | Taivassaloina | ||
translative | Taivassaloksi | Taivassaloiksi | ||
abessive | Taivassalotta | Taivassaloitta | ||
instructive | — | Taivassaloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Statistics edit
- The surname Taivassalo belongs to 239 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