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

  1. Karelia (region shared between Russia and Finland)
  2. A former municipality in the province of Varsinais-Suomi in SW Finland.
  3. A surname.

Usage notes

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

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