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 Sulkavainrare | ||
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 [Book of Finnish Place names] (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