Loviisa
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Swedish Lovisa, cognate to English Louisa and Louise. In Finnish, towns named after individuals are often left as is. Compare Pietari (“St Petersburg”), Antrea and Mikkeli.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Loviisa
- a female given name
- A town on the southeast coast of Finland, named in 1752 for Queen Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden.
Declension[edit]
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Loviisa" is Loviisassa.
Inflection of Loviisa (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Loviisa | Loviisat | ||
genitive | Loviisan | Loviisoiden Loviisoitten Loviisojen | ||
partitive | Loviisaa | Loviisoita Loviisoja | ||
illative | Loviisaan | Loviisoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Loviisa | Loviisat | ||
accusative | nom. | Loviisa | Loviisat | |
gen. | Loviisan | |||
genitive | Loviisan | Loviisoiden Loviisoitten Loviisojen Loviisain rare | ||
partitive | Loviisaa | Loviisoita Loviisoja | ||
inessive | Loviisassa | Loviisoissa | ||
elative | Loviisasta | Loviisoista | ||
illative | Loviisaan | Loviisoihin | ||
adessive | Loviisalla | Loviisoilla | ||
ablative | Loviisalta | Loviisoilta | ||
allative | Loviisalle | Loviisoille | ||
essive | Loviisana | Loviisoina | ||
translative | Loviisaksi | Loviisoiksi | ||
abessive | Loviisatta | Loviisoitta | ||
instructive | — | Loviisoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms[edit]
Statistics[edit]
- Loviisa is the 586th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 488 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,660 more, making it much more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams[edit]
Categories:
- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/oʋiːsɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/oʋiːsɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- fi:Towns in Finland
- fi:Places in Finland
- Finnish katiska-type nominals
- fi:Municipalities of Finland