Mietoinen

Finnish

Etymology

A farm name, perhaps from the same origin as Miettinen, i.e. either from forms of Klemetti or Mielitty.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmie̯toi̯nen/, [ˈmie̞̯t̪o̞i̯ne̞n]
  • Rhymes: -ietoinen
  • Syllabification(key): Mie‧toi‧nen
  • Hyphenation(key): Mie‧toi‧nen

Proper noun

Mietoinen

  1. a former municipality of Southwestern Finland, now part of Mynämäki.

Declension

Inflection of Mietoinen (type 38/nainen)
singular plural
nominative Mietoinen –
genitive – Mietoisten
partitive Mietoista Mietoisia
accusative Mietoinen
Mietoisen 		–
inessive – Mietoisissa
elative – Mietoisista
illative – Mietoisiin
adessive – Mietoisilla
ablative – Mietoisilta
allative – Mietoisille
essive – Mietoisina
translative Mietoiseksi Mietoisiksi
abessive – Mietoisitta
instructive – Mietoisin
comitative – Mietoisineen

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

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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