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Riihimäki
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English
Proper noun
en Q429864en town/and/municipality r/Tavastia Proper in southern c/Finland.
Finnish
fi:
Etymology
fi riihi drying/threshing cabin mäki hill. The surname derives from place names. The Tavastian town developed around the railway station, originally placed in a relatively small village in western Hausjärvi, which in turn was named after a hill (on which a drying or threshing cabin, fi riihi, once stood).
Pronunciation
riihi-mäki
fi
Proper noun
fi Riihimäki Q429864
fi Finnish
Declension
It is more common in media to use the external locative cases (fi Riihimäellä in Riihimäki), but many natives of the town prefer internal locative cases (fi Riihimäessä in Riihimäki).
Riihimä k ä
Derived terms
fi riihimäkeläinen
Descendants
1 en Riihimäki
1 sv Riihimäki
Statistics
dvv_20250813 2202 367
See also
fi Riihimäki_(täsmennyssivu)
References