Oulunkylä

oulun +‎ kylä, of unclear origin (not directly related to Oulu). The name may originate as an adaptation of the Swedish name Åggelby, perhaps from å (“river”) + göl (“pool, lagoon”), gärde (“fenced field”) or kulla (“hill”) + by (“village”). However, the name may also be of Finnish origin and be related to the name of the village Ohkola in Mäntsälä, although the phonological development appears difficult to reconcile.^[1] Yet a third theory even suggests that it derives from oulu, the same word as Oulu, but this is unlikely, given that evidence for the name containing plosives -g- stretches back centuries and due to the distribution of oulu (Lapland and Northern Ostrobothnia).

• IPA^(key): /ˈou̯lunˌkylæ/, [ˈo̞u̯luŋˌk̟ylæ]
• Rhymes: -ylæ
• Syllabification^(key): Ou‧lun‧ky‧lä
• Hyphenation^(key): Oulun‧kylä

Oulunkylä

1. a neighborhood of Helsinki

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.