Puumala
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Puuma- + -la; possibly from a Karelian vernacular form of Russian Памфил (Pamfil).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Puumala
- A municipality of Southern Savonia, Finland.
- a Finnish surname
Declension
[edit]The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Puumala" is Puumalassa.
Inflection of Puumala (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Puumala | Puumalat | ||
genitive | Puumalan | Puumaloiden Puumaloitten | ||
partitive | Puumalaa | Puumaloita | ||
illative | Puumalaan | Puumaloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Puumala | Puumalat | ||
accusative | nom. | Puumala | Puumalat | |
gen. | Puumalan | |||
genitive | Puumalan | Puumaloiden Puumaloitten Puumalain rare | ||
partitive | Puumalaa | Puumaloita | ||
inessive | Puumalassa | Puumaloissa | ||
elative | Puumalasta | Puumaloista | ||
illative | Puumalaan | Puumaloihin | ||
adessive | Puumalalla | Puumaloilla | ||
ablative | Puumalalta | Puumaloilta | ||
allative | Puumalalle | Puumaloille | ||
essive | Puumalana | Puumaloina | ||
translative | Puumalaksi | Puumaloiksi | ||
abessive | Puumalatta | Puumaloitta | ||
instructive | — | Puumaloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Puumala is the 1560th (tied with 3 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 549 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
[edit]Categories:
- Finnish terms derived from Russian
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/uːmɑlɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/uːmɑlɑ/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 kulkija-type nominals