Kauniainen

Finnish

Etymology

Originally the name of an estate and village near Nokia, probably from a pre-Christian given name Kaunia (presumably from kaunis) +‎ -inen.

The name for the town near Helsinki is based on a farm name found on some late 19th century maps. The farm may have been named after the aforementioned estate near Nokia. The name was revived in the late 1920s and became established in the 1930s (replacing an earlier name Kuusisto [< kuusisto] which was based on the Swedish name Grankulla), but was only taken into official use in 1949.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑu̯niɑi̯nen/, [ˈkɑ̝u̯niˌɑ̝i̯ne̞n]
• Rhymes: -ɑinen
• Syllabification^(key): Kau‧ni‧ai‧nen

Proper noun

Kauniainen

1. A town and municipality in the Helsinki metropolitan region, Finland.

Declension

Inflection of Kauniainen (type 38/nainen) singular plural nominative Kauniainen – genitive – Kauniaisten partitive Kauniaista Kauniaisia accusative Kauniainen Kauniaisen – inessive – Kauniaisissa elative – Kauniaisista illative – Kauniaisiin adessive – Kauniaisilla ablative – Kauniaisilta allative – Kauniaisille essive – Kauniaisina translative Kauniaiseksi Kauniaisiksi abessive – Kauniaisitta instructive – Kauniaisin comitative – Kauniaisineen

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kauniainen" is Kauniaisissa. Note that the inflected forms are formed as if they were plural.

Derived terms

• kauniaislainen

 

Anagrams

• aukinainen