Suoniemi
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]suo (“swamp”) + niemi (“peninsula, cape”). The municipality is named after a peninsula (on which it is situated), which however does not have a swamp, making this a misnomer.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Suoniemi
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Suoniemi (Kotus type 25/toimi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Suoniemi | Suoniemet | |
genitive | Suoniemen | Suoniemien Suonienten | |
partitive | Suonientä Suoniemeä |
Suoniemiä | |
illative | Suoniemeen | Suoniemiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Suoniemi | Suoniemet | |
accusative | nom. | Suoniemi | Suoniemet |
gen. | Suoniemen | ||
genitive | Suoniemen | Suoniemien Suonienten | |
partitive | Suonientä Suoniemeä |
Suoniemiä | |
inessive | Suoniemessä | Suoniemissä | |
elative | Suoniemestä | Suoniemistä | |
illative | Suoniemeen | Suoniemiin | |
adessive | Suoniemellä | Suoniemillä | |
ablative | Suoniemeltä | Suoniemiltä | |
allative | Suoniemelle | Suoniemille | |
essive | Suoniemenä | Suonieminä | |
translative | Suoniemeksi | Suoniemiksi | |
abessive | Suoniemettä | Suoniemittä | |
instructive | — | Suoniemin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- Suoniemi is the 1553rd (tied with 2 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 553 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