Oulu

== English == === Etymology === From Finnish Oulu. === Proper noun === Oulu A municipality, the capital city of North Ostrobothnia, Finland. A town in Wisconsin, United States. A lake in northern Finland. ==== Synonyms ==== (lake): Oulujarvi, Cajania (historical) ==== Translations ==== == Finnish == === Etymology === Probably from the dialectal term oulu (“floodwater”), a Sami borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Samic *oalē (“waterway”). Alternatively, the aforementioned Samic term might be borrowed from Finnish, which would rather derive from another Samic term, *võvl(V), in turn from earlier *votl- (compare to the name of the Vodla river in Russia), perhaps a Paleo-European substrate borrowing. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈou̯lu/, [ˈo̞u̯lu] Rhymes: -oulu Syllabification(key): Ou‧lu Hyphenation(key): Ou‧lu === Proper noun === Oulu Oulu (a municipality, the capital city of North Ostrobothnia, Finland) ==== Declension ==== The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Oulu" is Oulussa. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === == Polish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Finnish Oulu. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɔw.lu/ Rhymes: -ɔwlu Syllabification: Ou‧lu === Proper noun === Oulu n (indeclinable) Oulu (a municipality, the capital city of North Ostrobothnia, Finland) === Further reading === Oulu in PWN's encyclopedia