Kyrö
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from a dialectal geographical term kyrö, which could have originally referring to rocky ground.[1][2] However, the dialectal term is scarcely attested, which makes this uncertain. The surname is from the place name.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Kyrö
- (historical) A rural municipality, split over time during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries into (among others) Isokyrö, Hämeenkyrö and Ikaalinen.
- a Finnish surname transferred from the place name
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Kyrö (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Kyrö | Kyröt | ||
genitive | Kyrön | Kyröjen | ||
partitive | Kyröä | Kyröjä | ||
illative | Kyröön | Kyröihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Kyrö | Kyröt | ||
accusative | nom. | Kyrö | Kyröt | |
gen. | Kyrön | |||
genitive | Kyrön | Kyröjen | ||
partitive | Kyröä | Kyröjä | ||
inessive | Kyrössä | Kyröissä | ||
elative | Kyröstä | Kyröistä | ||
illative | Kyröön | Kyröihin | ||
adessive | Kyröllä | Kyröillä | ||
ablative | Kyröltä | Kyröiltä | ||
allative | Kyrölle | Kyröille | ||
essive | Kyrönä | Kyröinä | ||
translative | Kyröksi | Kyröiksi | ||
abessive | Kyröttä | Kyröittä | ||
instructive | — | Kyröin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Statistics
[edit]- Kyrö is the 1790th (tied with 4 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 477 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