tammi (“oak”) saari (“island”), apparently coined in the newspaper Suometar as a modified translation of Swedish Ekenäs (eke (“oak woods”) näs (“isthmus”)).[1]
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑmːiˌsɑːri/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝mːiˌs̠ɑ̝ːri]
- Rhymes: -ɑːri
- Hyphenation(key): Tammi‧saari
Tammisaari
- A former town and municipality in Uusimaa, Finland; now part of Raasepori.
- A township in and the administrative center of the municipality of Raasepori.
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Tammisaari" is Tammisaaressa.
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [The Book of Finnish Place Names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN