Etymology
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mynä- + -mä. mäki (“hill”) has later been introduced folk-etymologically through the inflected forms. The origin of the root is unknown, but related to Mynäjärvi, the name of a nearby lake (whence the name of the nearby river Mynäjoki). First attested in 1567 as Mynemedh;[1] this indicates that the name was originally in the plural (*Mynämät). The genitive form *Mynämäẟen > Mynämäen then served as the reason to introduce mäki (genitive mäen). The root is found nowhere else in Finland, which is indicative of a loan; thus, according to Heikkilä, it could have been borrowed in the 12th century from Early Middle High German münech (“monk”) (> *Mynelahti (literally “monk('s) bay”) > *Mynämät).[2]
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈmynæˌmæki/, [ˈmynæˌmæk̟i]
- Rhymes: -æki
- Syllabification(key): My‧nä‧mä‧ki
Proper noun
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Mynämäki
- A municipality near Turku in SW Finland.
Declension
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The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Mynämäki" is Mynämäessä. External locative cases (Mynämäellä) are also accepted.
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
- ^ Heikkilä, Mikko (2016) Kuka oli herra Heinäricki? – piispa Henrikin arvoitus (in Finnish), Tampere University Press, →ISBN, pages 77–85