kirkonkylä
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
kirkon (“of church”) + kylä (“village”), calque of Swedish kyrkby, from kyrka (“church”) + by (“village”), cognate with German Kirchdorf, from Kirche (“church”) + Dorf (“village”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kirkonkylä
- (historical) The village in a rural municipality in which the main church and the vicariate were located.
Usage notes edit
The boundaries of municipalities and parishes used to be the same. Usually the kirkonkylä was also in other respects the most important village in a municipality, e.g. by being the location of municipal offices. Industrialization and railways changed this to a certain extent, and the reduction in the number of municipalities (through mergers) that has progressively taken place since the 1960s has further eroded this connection. The central township of a municipality is currently officially called kuntakeskus, but the term kirkonkylä is frequently used in common language and in place names.
Declension edit
Inflection of kirkonkylä (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | kirkonkylä | kirkonkylät | ||
genitive | kirkonkylän | kirkonkylien | ||
partitive | kirkonkylää | kirkonkyliä | ||
illative | kirkonkylään | kirkonkyliin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | kirkonkylä | kirkonkylät | ||
accusative | nom. | kirkonkylä | kirkonkylät | |
gen. | kirkonkylän | |||
genitive | kirkonkylän | kirkonkylien kirkonkyläinrare | ||
partitive | kirkonkylää | kirkonkyliä | ||
inessive | kirkonkylässä | kirkonkylissä | ||
elative | kirkonkylästä | kirkonkylistä | ||
illative | kirkonkylään | kirkonkyliin | ||
adessive | kirkonkylällä | kirkonkylillä | ||
ablative | kirkonkylältä | kirkonkyliltä | ||
allative | kirkonkylälle | kirkonkylille | ||
essive | kirkonkylänä | kirkonkylinä | ||
translative | kirkonkyläksi | kirkonkyliksi | ||
abessive | kirkonkylättä | kirkonkylittä | ||
instructive | — | kirkonkylin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “kirkonkylä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02