Mynämäki

mynä- +‎ -mä. mäki (“hill”) has later been introduced folk-etymologically through the inflected forms. The origin of the root is unknown, but related to Mynäjärvi, the name of a nearby lake (whence the name of the nearby river Mynäjoki). First attested in 1567 as Mynemedh;^[1] this indicates that the name was originally in the plural (*Mynämät). The genitive form *Mynämäẟen > Mynämäen then served as the reason to introduce mäki (genitive mäen). The root is found nowhere else in Finland, which is indicative of a loan; thus, according to Heikkilä, it could have been borrowed in the 12th century from Early Middle High German münech (“monk”) (> *Mynelahti (literally “monk('s) bay”) > *Mynämät).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmynæˌmæki/, [ˈmynæˌmæk̟i]
• Rhymes: -æki
• Syllabification^(key): My‧nä‧mä‧ki
• Hyphenation^(key): Mynä‧mäki

Mynämäki

1. a municipality near Turku in Southwest Finland

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Mynämäki" is Mynämäessä. External locative cases (Mynämäellä) are also accepted.