meri(“sea”) +Karvia, because it was once the main fishing area for people from the surrounding villages, includingKarvia.[1]
Merikarvia
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) areused with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Merikarvia" isMerikarvialla.
| Inflection ofMerikarvia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Merikarvia | — | |
| genitive | Merikarvian | — | |
| partitive | Merikarviaa | — | |
| illative | Merikarviaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Merikarvia | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Merikarvia | — |
| gen. | Merikarvian | ||
| genitive | Merikarvian | — | |
| partitive | Merikarviaa | — | |
| inessive | Merikarviassa | — | |
| elative | Merikarviasta | — | |
| illative | Merikarviaan | — | |
| adessive | Merikarvialla | — | |
| ablative | Merikarvialta | — | |
| allative | Merikarvialle | — | |
| essive | Merikarviana | — | |
| translative | Merikarviaksi | — | |
| abessive | Merikarviatta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
