Oulu
See also: Ōulù
English
Proper noun
Oulu
- A city in northern Finland.
- A town in Wisconsin, in the United States.
- A lake in northern Finland.
Synonyms
- (lake): Oulujarvi, Cajania (historical)
Finnish
Etymology
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]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈou̯lu/, [ˈo̞u̯lu]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -oulu
- Syllabification(key): Ou‧lu
Declension
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.
Inflection of Oulu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Oulu | — | ||
genitive | Oulun | — | ||
partitive | Oulua | — | ||
illative | Ouluun | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Oulu | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Oulu | — | |
gen. | Oulun | |||
genitive | Oulun | — | ||
partitive | Oulua | — | ||
inessive | Oulussa | — | ||
elative | Oulusta | — | ||
illative | Ouluun | — | ||
adessive | Oululla | — | ||
ablative | Oululta | — | ||
allative | Oululle | — | ||
essive | Ouluna | — | ||
translative | Ouluksi | — | ||
abessive | Oulutta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɔw.lu/
- Rhymes: -ɔwlu
- Syllabification: Ou‧lu
Proper noun
Oulu n (indeclinable)
- Oulu (the capital city and municipality of North Ostrobothnia, Finland)
Further reading
- Oulu in PWN's encyclopedia
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