Oulu

From Finnish Oulu.

Oulu

2. A municipality, the capital city of North Ostrobothnia, Finland.
3. A town in Wisconsin, United States.
4. A lake in northern Finland.

• (lake): Oulujarvi, Cajania (historical)

Probably from the dialectal term oulu (“floodwater”),^[1] a Sami borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Samic *oalē (“waterway”). Alternatively, the aforementioned Samic term might be borrowed from Finnish, which would rather derive from another Samic term, *võvl(V), in turn from earlier *votl- (compare to the name of the Vodla river in Russia), perhaps a Paleo-European substrate borrowing.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈou̯lu/, [ˈo̞u̯lu]

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• Rhymes: -oulu
• Syllabification^(key): Ou‧lu
• Hyphenation^(key): Ou‧lu

Oulu

1. Oulu (a municipality, the capital city of North Ostrobothnia, Finland)

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Oulu" is Oulussa.

Unadapted borrowing from Finnish Oulu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔw.lu/
• Rhymes: -ɔwlu
• Syllabification: Ou‧lu

Oulu n (indeclinable)

1. Oulu (a municipality, the capital city of North Ostrobothnia, Finland)

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