Etymology
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From dialectal vahto (standard vaahto), after a river name.[1]
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈʋɑhto/, [ˈʋɑ̝xt̪o̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑhto
- Syllabification(key): Vah‧to
Proper noun
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Vahto
- A former municipality in Southwest Finland; now part of Rusko.
- A village in the municipality of Rusko.
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 Vahto" is Vahdossa.
References
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- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN