Vienan Karjala
Finnish
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Etymology
This part of Karelia has historically belonged to Novgorod and later Russia since the 15th century, and was for a long time governed from the city of Archangel, which was in Finnish known as Viena or later Vienankaupunki, hence this region came to be known as Vienan Karjala ("Archangel's Karelia").
Proper noun
- White Karelia; a region east of the White Sea in NW Russia, now part of the Republic of Karelia.
Declension
Inflection of Vienan Karjala (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Vienan Karjala | — | |
genitive | Vienan Karjalan | — | |
partitive | Vienan Karjalaa | — | |
illative | Vienan Karjalaan | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Vienan Karjala | — | |
accusative | nom. | Vienan Karjala | — |
gen. | Vienan Karjalan | ||
genitive | Vienan Karjalan | — | |
partitive | Vienan Karjalaa | — | |
inessive | Vienan Karjalassa | — | |
elative | Vienan Karjalasta | — | |
illative | Vienan Karjalaan | — | |
adessive | Vienan Karjalalla | — | |
ablative | Vienan Karjalalta | — | |
allative | Vienan Karjalalle | — | |
essive | Vienan Karjalana | — | |
translative | Vienan Karjalaksi | — | |
abessive | Vienan Karjalatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |