Luopioinen
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly ultimately derived from luoda, which could also mean "(of ice) to thaw, (of water) to flood". This could have been the source of a lake name *Luopia, *Luopioinen, after which the town was then named.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Luopioinen
- A former municipality in Pirkanmaa, Finland; now part of Pälkäne.
- A village in the municipality of Pälkäne.
Declension
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The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Luopioinen" is Luopioisissa. Note that the inflected forms are formed as if they were plural.
References
[edit]- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN