Kolari
Appearance
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Kolari
- A municipality in Lapland, Finland, on the border with Sweden.
Translations
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]An occupational surname from Swedish kolare.[1] The place name is after an early settler,[2] itself after an island, the name of which is of the same origin as the surname.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Kolari
Declension
[edit]The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kolari" is Kolarissa.
Inflection of Kolari (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Kolari | Kolarit | |
genitive | Kolarin | Kolarien Kolareiden Kolareitten | |
partitive | Kolaria | Kolareita Kolareja | |
illative | Kolariin | Kolareihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Kolari | Kolarit | |
accusative | nom. | Kolari | Kolarit |
gen. | Kolarin | ||
genitive | Kolarin | Kolarien Kolareiden Kolareitten | |
partitive | Kolaria | Kolareita Kolareja | |
inessive | Kolarissa | Kolareissa | |
elative | Kolarista | Kolareista | |
illative | Kolariin | Kolareihin | |
adessive | Kolarilla | Kolareilla | |
ablative | Kolarilta | Kolareilta | |
allative | Kolarille | Kolareille | |
essive | Kolarina | Kolareina | |
translative | Kolariksi | Kolareiksi | |
abessive | Kolaritta | Kolareitta | |
instructive | — | Kolarein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Kolari is the 822nd (tied with 1 other surname) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 1,069 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
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- 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 terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/olɑri
- Rhymes:Finnish/olɑri/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish paperi-type nominals
- fi:Municipalities of Finland