Porkkala
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Porkkala
- A peninsula in Finland, on the Gulf of Finland.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly porkka (“stick or staff used to frighten the fish”) + -la.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Porkkala
- (uncountable) Synonym of Porkkalanniemi
- a Finnish surname from landscape
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Porkkala (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Porkkala | Porkkalat | |
genitive | Porkkalan | Porkkaloiden Porkkaloitten | |
partitive | Porkkalaa | Porkkaloita | |
illative | Porkkalaan | Porkkaloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Porkkala | Porkkalat | |
accusative | nom. | Porkkala | Porkkalat |
gen. | Porkkalan | ||
genitive | Porkkalan | Porkkaloiden Porkkaloitten Porkkalain rare | |
partitive | Porkkalaa | Porkkaloita | |
inessive | Porkkalassa | Porkkaloissa | |
elative | Porkkalasta | Porkkaloista | |
illative | Porkkalaan | Porkkaloihin | |
adessive | Porkkalalla | Porkkaloilla | |
ablative | Porkkalalta | Porkkaloilta | |
allative | Porkkalalle | Porkkaloille | |
essive | Porkkalana | Porkkaloina | |
translative | Porkkalaksi | Porkkaloiksi | |
abessive | Porkkalatta | Porkkaloitta | |
instructive | — | Porkkaloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Statistics
[edit]- The surname Porkkala belongs to 77 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
[edit]- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Finnish
- English terms derived from Finnish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Peninsulas
- en:Places in Finland
- Finnish terms suffixed with -la (toponym)
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/orkːɑlɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/orkːɑlɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals