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Pihlajamäki
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Finnish
Etymology
fi pihlaja rowan mäki hill. The surname is mostly from place names, but also adopted as a Fennicized surname. The name of the place in Helsinki was fi 1 Finnish professor fi: Reino Castrén 1 in the late 1950s and was inspired by the surname sv Rönnkulla (sv rönn + sv kulle kulla (kulle)) of one of the (few) residents of the area before the construction of the suburb in the 1960s. The area is also known to have had a croft/copyhold named sv Rönnbacka (sv rönn + sv backe backa (backe)).
Pronunciation
pihlaja-mäki
Proper noun
fi Finnish
fi quarter city/Helsinki
Declension
Pihlajamä k ä
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Statistics
dvv_20250813 1260 682
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