Malmi
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See also: malmi
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]< malmi (“field”). As a surname, through the sense "used by soldiers for training". As a place in Helsinki, perhaps in reference to the sandy field that is now the spot of the Malmi Cemetery, or to a village located south of what is now Ala-Malmi.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Malmi
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Malmi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Malmi | Malmit | |
genitive | Malmin | Malmien | |
partitive | Malmia | Malmeja | |
illative | Malmiin | Malmeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Malmi | Malmit | |
accusative | nom. | Malmi | Malmit |
gen. | Malmin | ||
genitive | Malmin | Malmien | |
partitive | Malmia | Malmeja | |
inessive | Malmissa | Malmeissa | |
elative | Malmista | Malmeista | |
illative | Malmiin | Malmeihin | |
adessive | Malmilla | Malmeilla | |
ablative | Malmilta | Malmeilta | |
allative | Malmille | Malmeille | |
essive | Malmina | Malmeina | |
translative | Malmiksi | Malmeiksi | |
abessive | Malmitta | Malmeitta | |
instructive | — | Malmein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Statistics
[edit]- Malmi is the 1058th (tied with 2 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 818 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
[edit]- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN