Porkkala
English
editEtymology
editProper noun
editPorkkala
- A peninsula in the Gulf of Finland.
Finnish
editEtymology
editPossibly porkka (“stick or staff used to frighten the fish”) + -la.[1]
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editPorkkala
- (uncountable) Synonym of Porkkalanniemi
- a Finnish surname from landscape
Declension
editInflection of Porkkala (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Porkkala | Porkkalat | ||
genitive | Porkkalan | Porkkaloiden Porkkaloitten | ||
partitive | Porkkalaa | Porkkaloita | ||
illative | Porkkalaan | Porkkaloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Porkkala | Porkkalat | ||
accusative | nom. | Porkkala | Porkkalat | |
gen. | Porkkalan | |||
genitive | Porkkalan | Porkkaloiden Porkkaloitten Porkkalain rare | ||
partitive | Porkkalaa | Porkkaloita | ||
inessive | Porkkalassa | Porkkaloissa | ||
elative | Porkkalasta | Porkkaloista | ||
illative | Porkkalaan | Porkkaloihin | ||
adessive | Porkkalalla | Porkkaloilla | ||
ablative | Porkkalalta | Porkkaloilta | ||
allative | Porkkalalle | Porkkaloille | ||
essive | Porkkalana | Porkkaloina | ||
translative | Porkkalaksi | Porkkaloiksi | ||
abessive | Porkkalatta | Porkkaloitta | ||
instructive | — | Porkkaloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.
Derived terms
editcompounds
Statistics
edit- The surname Porkkala belongs to 77 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
edit- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Finnish
- English terms derived from Finnish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- Finnish terms suffixed with -la (toponym)
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/orkːɑlɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/orkːɑlɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals