Kuhmoinen

Finnish

Etymology

kuhmo- +‎ -inen. The initial component has been explained in two ways: by derivation from kuhmu (thus "hill"), or, more likely, akin to kumottaa, kuumottaa (“to loom, be barely vislble”). As the name has generally been associated with high points of elevation, the "looming" would have referred to terrain, or alternatively to beacons (signal fires).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuhmoi̯nen/, [ˈkuxmo̞i̯ne̞n]
  • Rhymes: -uhmoinen
  • Syllabification(key): Kuh‧moi‧nen
  • Hyphenation(key): Kuh‧moi‧nen

Proper noun

Kuhmoinen

  1. a municipality of Pirkanmaa

Declension

Inflection of Kuhmoinen (type 38/nainen)
singular plural
nominative Kuhmoinen –
genitive – Kuhmoisten
partitive Kuhmoista Kuhmoisia
accusative Kuhmoinen
Kuhmoisen 		–
inessive – Kuhmoisissa
elative – Kuhmoisista
illative – Kuhmoisiin
adessive – Kuhmoisilla
ablative – Kuhmoisilta
allative – Kuhmoisille
essive – Kuhmoisina
translative Kuhmoiseksi Kuhmoisiksi
abessive – Kuhmoisitta
instructive – Kuhmoisin
comitative – Kuhmoisineen

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • →⇒ Swedish: Kuhmois

Further reading

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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