Karjala
See also: karjala
Finnish
Current administrative regions of Karelia
Etymology
karja + -la, most likely in the older (and now obsolete) "army" sense of karja as borrowed from Proto-Germanic *harjaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑrjɑlɑ/, [ˈkɑrjɑlɑ]
- Hyphenation: Kar‧ja‧la
Proper noun
Karjala
- Karelia (region shared between Russia and Finland)
- A former municipality in the province of Varsinais-Suomi in SW Finland.
- A surname.
Usage notes
- The Russian Republic of Karelia is referred to as Karjalan tasavalta in Finnish.
Declension
| Inflection of Karjala (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Karjala | — | |
| genitive | Karjalan | — | |
| partitive | Karjalaa | — | |
| illative | Karjalaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Karjala | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Karjala | — |
| gen. | Karjalan | ||
| genitive | Karjalan | — | |
| partitive | Karjalaa | — | |
| inessive | Karjalassa | — | |
| elative | Karjalasta | — | |
| illative | Karjalaan | — | |
| adessive | Karjalalla | — | |
| ablative | Karjalalta | — | |
| allative | Karjalalle | — | |
| essive | Karjalana | — | |
| translative | Karjalaksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Karjalatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
Derived terms
References
- Disambiguation page on
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