Sulkava
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See also: sulkava
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sulkava (“a kind of fish”), originally used in names for bodies of water.[1] The surname is from the place name.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Sulkava
- A municipality of Southern Savonia, Finland.
- a Finnish surname
Declension
[edit]- (municipality): The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used when referring to a location; for example, "in Sulkava" is Sulkavalla.
Inflection of Sulkava (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Sulkava | Sulkavat | |
genitive | Sulkavan | Sulkavien | |
partitive | Sulkavaa | Sulkavia | |
illative | Sulkavaan | Sulkaviin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Sulkava | Sulkavat | |
accusative | nom. | Sulkava | Sulkavat |
gen. | Sulkavan | ||
genitive | Sulkavan | Sulkavien Sulkavain rare | |
partitive | Sulkavaa | Sulkavia | |
inessive | Sulkavassa | Sulkavissa | |
elative | Sulkavasta | Sulkavista | |
illative | Sulkavaan | Sulkaviin | |
adessive | Sulkavalla | Sulkavilla | |
ablative | Sulkavalta | Sulkavilta | |
allative | Sulkavalle | Sulkaville | |
essive | Sulkavana | Sulkavina | |
translative | Sulkavaksi | Sulkaviksi | |
abessive | Sulkavatta | Sulkavitta | |
instructive | — | Sulkavin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- The surname Sulkava belongs to 162 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
[edit]- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
- ^ Mikkonen, Pirjo, Paikkala, Sirkka (2000) Sukunimet, Helsinki: Otava, →ISBN
Categories:
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ulkɑʋɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ulkɑʋɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Municipalities of Southern Savonia, Finland
- fi:Municipalities of Finland
- fi:Places in Southern Savonia, Finland
- fi:Places in Finland
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish koira-type nominals