Originally the name for an island. From the Swedish name Houtskär, itself from hout- + skär as a partial calque of an older Finnish name, either *Hautasaari or *Hautasalo, from hauta (“trench, pit, grave”) + saari/salo (“island”).[1]
- IPA(key): /ˈhou̯tskɑri/, [ˈho̞u̯ts̠kɑ̝ri]
- Rhymes: -outskɑri
- Syllabification(key): Houts‧ka‧ri
Houtskari
- A former municipality in Southwest Finland; now part of Parainen.
- A village in the municipality of Parainen.
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Houtskari" is Houtskarissa.
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN