Kiukainen

Finnish

Etymology

Perhaps from kiukku (“anger”) through a name given to a nearby rapid section of river (like *Kiukkukoski), or possibly from kiuas +‎ -inen.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkiu̯kɑi̯nen/, [ˈk̟iu̯kɑ̝i̯ne̞n]
  • Rhymes: -iukɑinen
  • Syllabification(key): Kiu‧kai‧nen

Proper noun

Kiukainen

  1. A former municipality in Satakunta, Finland; now part of Eura.

Declension
Declension of Kiukainen (type 38/nainen)
singular plural
nominative Kiukainen –
genitive – Kiukaisten
partitive Kiukaista Kiukaisia
accusative Kiukainen
Kiukaisen		 –
inessive – Kiukaisissa
elative – Kiukaisista
illative – Kiukaisiin
adessive – Kiukaisilla
ablative – Kiukaisilta
allative – Kiukaisille
essive – Kiukaisina
translative Kiukaiseksi Kiukaisiksi
abessive – Kiukaisitta
instructive – Kiukaisin
comitative – Kiukaisineen

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kiukainen" is Kiukaisissa. Note that the inflected forms are formed as if they were plural.

References
  1. Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
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