Kolari
English
editProper noun
editKolari
- A municipality in Lapland, Finland, on the border with Sweden.
Translations
editFinnish
editEtymology
editAn occupational surname from Swedish kolare.[1] The place name is after an early settler,[2] itself after an island, the name of which is of the same origin as the surname.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editKolari
Declension
editThe internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kolari" is Kolarissa.
Inflection of Kolari (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Kolari | Kolarit | ||
genitive | Kolarin | Kolarien Kolareiden Kolareitten | ||
partitive | Kolaria | Kolareita Kolareja | ||
illative | Kolariin | Kolareihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Kolari | Kolarit | ||
accusative | nom. | Kolari | Kolarit | |
gen. | Kolarin | |||
genitive | Kolarin | Kolarien Kolareiden Kolareitten | ||
partitive | Kolaria | Kolareita Kolareja | ||
inessive | Kolarissa | Kolareissa | ||
elative | Kolarista | Kolareista | ||
illative | Kolariin | Kolareihin | ||
adessive | Kolarilla | Kolareilla | ||
ablative | Kolarilta | Kolareilta | ||
allative | Kolarille | Kolareille | ||
essive | Kolarina | Kolareina | ||
translative | Kolariksi | Kolareiksi | ||
abessive | Kolaritta | Kolareitta | ||
instructive | — | Kolarein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
editStatistics
edit- Kolari is the 822nd (tied with 1 other surname) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 1,069 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
edit- ^ Mikkonen, Pirjo, Paikkala, Sirkka (2000) Sukunimet, Helsinki: Otava, →ISBN
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
Anagrams
editCategories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Municipalities of Lapland, Finland
- en:Municipalities of Finland
- en:Places in Lapland, Finland
- en:Places in Finland
- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/olɑri
- Rhymes:Finnish/olɑri/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish paperi-type nominals
- fi:Municipalities of Finland