Varsinais-Suomi
Finnish
editEtymology
editvarsinainen (“proper”) + Suomi (“Finland”), named so because Suomi originally referred to this region and only later to the entire country. The Finnish term, which only became established in the mid-19th century, is a calque of Swedish Egentliga Finland, which is found from at least the 18th century. Some Latin texts in the 1650s already use terms like Fenningia specialiter dicta (literally “Finland specifically speaking”) and Fenningia presse dicta (literally “Finland precisely speaking”), and the Swedish term could be considered to originate from the latter.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈʋɑrsinɑi̯sˌsuo̯mi/, [ˈʋɑ̝rs̠inɑ̝i̯s̠ˌs̠uo̞̯mi]
- Rhymes: -uomi
- Syllabification(key): Var‧si‧nais‧Suo‧mi
Proper noun
editVarsinais-Suomi
- Southwest Finland, Finland Proper; a province (maakunta) of Finland.
Declension
editInflection of Varsinais-Suomi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Varsinais-Suomi | — | |
genitive | Varsinais-Suomen | — | |
partitive | Varsinais-Suomea | — | |
illative | Varsinais-Suomeen | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Varsinais-Suomi | — | |
accusative | nom. | Varsinais-Suomi | — |
gen. | Varsinais-Suomen | ||
genitive | Varsinais-Suomen | — | |
partitive | Varsinais-Suomea | — | |
inessive | Varsinais-Suomessa | — | |
elative | Varsinais-Suomesta | — | |
illative | Varsinais-Suomeen | — | |
adessive | Varsinais-Suomella | — | |
ablative | Varsinais-Suomelta | — | |
allative | Varsinais-Suomelle | — | |
essive | Varsinais-Suomena | — | |
translative | Varsinais-Suomeksi | — | |
abessive | Varsinais-Suometta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
Categories:
- Finnish compound terms
- Finnish terms calqued from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 5-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/uomi
- Rhymes:Finnish/uomi/5 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish ovi-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- fi:Regions of Finland