Kiikoinen

Finnish

Etymology

Possibly Kiikka +‎ -oinen (because people from Kiikka may have been early settlers), or more directly from the name of the nearby rapids Kiikoiskoski, which may be from kiikottaa (“to talk loudly, holler”) or kiikuttaa (“to rock, sway”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkiːkoi̯nen/, [ˈk̟iːko̞i̯ne̞n]
  • Rhymes: -iːkoinen
  • Syllabification(key): Kii‧koi‧nen
  • Hyphenation(key): Kii‧koi‧nen

Proper noun

Kiikoinen

  1. A former municipality in Satakunta, Finland; now part of Sastamala.
  2. A village in the municipality of Sastamala.

Declension

Inflection of Kiikoinen (type 38/nainen)
singular plural
nominative Kiikoinen –
genitive – Kiikoisten
partitive Kiikoista Kiikoisia
accusative Kiikoinen
Kiikoisen 		–
inessive – Kiikoisissa
elative – Kiikoisista
illative – Kiikoisiin
adessive – Kiikoisilla
ablative – Kiikoisilta
allative – Kiikoisille
essive – Kiikoisina
translative Kiikoiseksi Kiikoisiksi
abessive – Kiikoisitta
instructive – Kiikoisin
comitative – Kiikoisineen

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

References

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