Kokkola
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From kokko (“eagle”) + -la.[1] The name of the town is derived through Kokkolahti, the bay on the shores of which Kokkola was founded.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Kokkola
- A town in Central Ostrobothnia, Finland.
- a Finnish surname
Declension
[edit]- (town): The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used when referring to a location; for example, "in Kokkola" is Kokkolassa.
Inflection of Kokkola (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Kokkola | Kokkolat | |
genitive | Kokkolan | Kokkoloiden Kokkoloitten | |
partitive | Kokkolaa | Kokkoloita | |
illative | Kokkolaan | Kokkoloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Kokkola | Kokkolat | |
accusative | nom. | Kokkola | Kokkolat |
gen. | Kokkolan | ||
genitive | Kokkolan | Kokkoloiden Kokkoloitten Kokkolain rare | |
partitive | Kokkolaa | Kokkoloita | |
inessive | Kokkolassa | Kokkoloissa | |
elative | Kokkolasta | Kokkoloista | |
illative | Kokkolaan | Kokkoloihin | |
adessive | Kokkolalla | Kokkoloilla | |
ablative | Kokkolalta | Kokkoloilta | |
allative | Kokkolalle | Kokkoloille | |
essive | Kokkolana | Kokkoloina | |
translative | Kokkolaksi | Kokkoloiksi | |
abessive | Kokkolatta | Kokkoloitta | |
instructive | — | Kokkoloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Kokkola is the 1687th (tied with 2 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 508 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
[edit]- ^ Mikkonen, Pirjo, Paikkala, Sirkka (2000) Sukunimet, Helsinki: Otava, →ISBN
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
Categories:
- Finnish terms suffixed with -la (toponym)
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/okːolɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/okːolɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Towns in Central Ostrobothnia, Finland
- fi:Towns in Finland
- fi:Places in Central Ostrobothnia, Finland
- fi:Places in Finland
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- fi:Municipalities of Finland