Etymology
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From hyvä (“good”) (perhaps through a given name) with the toponym suffix + -nka. The long vowel has been generalized by analogy from the locative forms, which often have a long vowel in the local Uusimaa dialects (*Hyvinkä > *Hyvinkääl).[1]
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈhyʋiŋkæː/, [ˈhyʋiŋk̟æː]
- Rhymes: -yʋiŋkæː
- Syllabification(key): Hy‧vin‧kää
Proper noun
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Hyvinkää
- A town in southern Finland, 50 km north of Helsinki
Declension
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The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Hyvinkää" is Hyvinkäällä.
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