Posio
English
editProper noun
editPosio
- A municipality of Lapland, Finland
Translations
editFinnish
editEtymology
editFrom posio; the town was named after a lake Posionjärvi, which itself from posio.[1]
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editPosio
Declension
editThe external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Posio" is Posiolla.
Inflection of Posio (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Posio | Posiot | |
genitive | Posion | Posioiden Posioitten | |
partitive | Posiota | Posioita | |
illative | Posioon | Posioihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Posio | Posiot | |
accusative | nom. | Posio | Posiot |
gen. | Posion | ||
genitive | Posion | Posioiden Posioitten | |
partitive | Posiota | Posioita | |
inessive | Posiossa | Posioissa | |
elative | Posiosta | Posioista | |
illative | Posioon | Posioihin | |
adessive | Posiolla | Posioilla | |
ablative | Posiolta | Posioilta | |
allative | Posiolle | Posioille | |
essive | Posiona | Posioina | |
translative | Posioksi | Posioiksi | |
abessive | Posiotta | Posioitta | |
instructive | — | Posioin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
editDescendants
editStatistics
edit- Posio is the 1486th (tied with 6 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 576 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
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 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/osio
- Rhymes:Finnish/osio/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish valtio-type nominals
- fi:Municipalities of Finland