Pyhäjärvi

== Finnish == === Etymology === pyhä (“sacred”) +‎ järvi (“lake”). The surname is from place names. All three municipalities were named after nearby lakes, Pyhäjärvi being a common name for lakes in Finland (given e.g. to lakes by pagan places or worship or sacrifice; at least in some cases it is also possible that pyhä was used as a labialized variant of piha in the sense “fenced enclosure” and given to lakes located near borders, although note that SSA considers that sense of pyhä to be of the same origin as pyhä (“holy, sacred”)). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpyhæˌjærʋi/, [ˈpyɦæˌjærʋi] Rhymes: -ærʋi Syllabification(key): Py‧hä‧jär‧vi Hyphenation(key): Pyhä‧järvi === Proper noun === Pyhäjärvi a town and municipality of North Ostrobothnia, Finland Synonyms: (historical) Pyhäjärvi Ol, (historical) Pyhäsalmi a former municipality of Uusimaa, merged with Karkkila in 1969 Synonym: (historical) Pyhäjärvi Ul a former Finnish municipality in the Karelian Isthmus, now the municipality Отрадное (Otradnoje) in Russia Synonyms: (historical) Pyhäjärvi Vl, (historical) Pyhäjärvi Vpl any of a number of lakes in Finland a Finnish surname ==== Usage notes ==== (town, municipality): The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used when referring to a location; for example, "in Pyhäjärvi" is Pyhäjärvellä. The town in Northern Ostrobothnia was called Pyhäjärvi Ol until 1962, Pyhäjärvi in 1963-92, Pyhäsalmi in 1993-95 and again Pyhäjärvi from 1996 onwards. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: Pyhäjärvi → Swedish: Pyhäjärvi ==== Statistics ==== Pyhäjärvi is the 3051st (tied with 12 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 254 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland. === References ===