Lammi
Finnish
Etymology
Ultimately from lampi (“pond”) via its weak grade forms beginning with lamm- or the dialectal variant lammi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɑmːi/, [ˈlɑmːi]
- Rhymes: -ɑmːi
- Syllabification(key): Lam‧mi
Proper noun
Lammi
- A former municipality in Kanta-Häme, Finland; now part of Hämeenlinna.
- A village in the municipality of Hämeenlinna.
Declension
| Inflection of Lammi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Lammi | — | |
| genitive | Lammin | — | |
| partitive | Lammia | — | |
| illative | Lammiin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Lammi | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Lammi | — |
| gen. | Lammin | ||
| genitive | Lammin | — | |
| partitive | Lammia | — | |
| inessive | Lammissa | — | |
| elative | Lammista | — | |
| illative | Lammiin | — | |
| adessive | Lammilla | — | |
| ablative | Lammilta | — | |
| allative | Lammille | — | |
| essive | Lammina | — | |
| translative | Lammiksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Lammitta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
| Possessive forms of Lammi (type risti) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Lammini | Lammimme |
| 2nd person | Lammisi | Lamminne |
| 3rd person | Lamminsa | |
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when talking about location; for example, "in Lammi" is Lammilla.
References
- Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007) Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN