Oulu
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See also: Ōulù
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Oulu
- A city in northern Finland.
- A town in Wisconsin, in the United States.
- A lake in northern Finland.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
city in Finland
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Oulu
- Oulu (the capital city of North Ostrobothnia, Finland)
Declension[edit]
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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Derived terms[edit]
compounds
References[edit]
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from Finnish Oulu.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Oulu n (indeclinable)
- Oulu (the capital city and municipality of North Ostrobothnia, Finland)
Further reading[edit]
- Oulu in PWN's encyclopedia
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Finnish
- English terms derived from Finnish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Cities in Finland
- en:Places in Finland
- en:Towns in Wisconsin, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:Places in Wisconsin, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Lakes
- Finnish terms derived from Sami languages
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Samic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Finnish/oulu
- Rhymes:Finnish/oulu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Cities in North Ostrobothnia, Finland
- fi:Cities in Finland
- fi:Regional capitals of Finland
- fi:Places in North Ostrobothnia, Finland
- fi:Places in Finland
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- fi:Municipalities of Finland
- Polish terms borrowed from Finnish
- Polish unadapted borrowings from Finnish
- Polish terms derived from Finnish
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔwlu
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔwlu/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish indeclinable nouns
- Polish neuter nouns
- pl:Cities in North Ostrobothnia, Finland
- pl:Cities in Finland
- pl:Regional capitals of Finland
- pl:Municipalities of North Ostrobothnia, Finland
- pl:Municipalities of Finland
- pl:Places in North Ostrobothnia, Finland
- pl:Places in Finland
- Polish exonyms